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NAME

6       ibus - command line utility for ibus
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SYNOPSIS

10       ibus COMMAND [OPTION]...
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DESCRIPTION

14       IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux
15       OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method  user  in‐
16       terface.  It also may help developers to develop input method easily.
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19       ibus  is  a command line utility which can restart or exit ibus-daemon,
20       get or set the current ibus engine or list the ibus engines.
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23       Homepage: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki
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COMMAND

27       help   Show the commands list.
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29       engine [ENGINE_NAME]
30              Show the curent ibus engine when ENGINE_NAME is not  given.  Set
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33       exit   Exit ibus-daemon.
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36              Show ibus engines list.
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38       restart [--type=TYPE|--verbose|--help]
39              Restart  ibus-daemon.  This command tries to restart ibus-daemon
40              via systemd  firstly  and  directly  secondary  by  default.  If
41              --type=systemd  is  given, It tries to restart via systemd only.
42              If --type=direct is given, It tries to restart with an IBus  API
43              only. GNOME desktop runs ibus-daemon via systemd and other desk‐
44              tops run ibus-daemon directly.
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46       start [--type=TYPE|--verbose|--help]
47              Start ibus-daemon. This command tries to start  ibus-daemon  via
48              systemd   firstly   and   directly   secondary  by  default.  If
49              --type=systemd is given, It  tries  to  start  as  a  background
50              process via systemd only. If --type=direct is given, It tries to
51              start directly only as a foreground process and other option ar‐
52              guments  of  ibus  command  are  sent to ibus-daemon. E.g.  ibus
53              start --type=direct --xim & GNOME desktop runs  ibus-daemon  via
54              systemd and other desktops run ibus-daemon directly.
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57              Show the ibus version.
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59       read-cache [--system|--file=FILE|--help]
60              Show  the  content of the user registry cache if --system is not
61              given.  Show the content of the system registry cache if  --sys‐
62              tem  is  given.   Show  the content of the custom registry cache
63              FILE if --file=FILE is given.
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65       write-cache [--system|--file=FILE|--help]
66              Save the user registry cache if --system is not given.  Save the
67              system  registry  cache  if  --system is given.  Save the custom
68              registry cache FILE if --file=FILE is given.
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70              By default, it reads the component XML files from  the  standard
71              component  directory  (/usr/share/ibus/component),  you  can set
72              IBUS_COMPONENT_PATH environment variable  for  custom  component
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75       address
76              Show the D-Bus address of ibus-daemon.
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79              Print the setting values in a gsettings configuration file.
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82              Reset the user setting values to the default ones in a gsettings
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87       emoji [--font=FONT|--lang=LANG|--help|--partial-match]
88              Launch IBus Emojier ( ibus-emoji (1) )  and  save  the  selected
89              emoji  to  your  clipboard. Can choose an emoji font with --font
90              option. Can choose a language of emoji annotations  with  --lang
91              option.      If      LANG="en",      IBus      Emojier     loads
92              /usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en.dict  .   --partial-match  option
93              enables  to  match annotations with a partial string. These set‐
94              tings are available with ibus-setup (1) utility.
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96       im-module [--type=TYPE|--help]
97              Show an internal im-module value in a virtual  GTK  application.
98              If  IBus  is  installed  and  configured properly, the output is
99              "ibus". This sub-command is useful for some users who build IBus
100              from  the  source  codes and check the configurations. Currently
101              the sub-command supports GTK applications only and  the  default
102              is  GTK3. If you wish to check a GTK4 application, you can spec‐
103              ify --type=gtk4 option and you can choose one of "gtk2",  "gtk3"
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BUGS

108       If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/is
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SEE ALSO

113       ibus-emoji(7)
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