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NAME

       ibus - command line utility for ibus

SYNOPSIS

       ibus COMMAND [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       IBus  is  an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user
       interface.  It also may help developers to develop input method easily.

       ibus is a command line utility which can restart or exit ibus-daemon, get or set the current ibus engine or list the ibus engines.

       Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/

COMMAND

       help   Show the commands list.

       engine [ENGINE_NAME]
	      Show the curent ibus engine when ENGINE_NAME is not given. Set ENGINE_NAME to the current ibus engine.

       exit   Exit ibus-daemon.

       list-engine
	      Show ibus engines list.

       restart
	      Restart ibus-daemon.

       version
	      Show the ibus version.

       read-cache [--system|--file=FILE]
	      Show the content of the user registry cache if --system is not given.  Show the content of the system registry cache if --system	is
	      given.  Show the content of the custom registry cache FILE if --file=FILE is given.

       write-cache [--system|--file=FILE]
	      Save  the  user registry cache if --system is not given.	Save the system registry cache if --system is given.  Save the custom reg-
	      istry cache FILE if --file=FILE is given.  IBUS_COMPONENT_PATH environment valuable is  also  available  for  the  custom  component
	      directories, whose delimiter is ':'.

       watch  Under construction.

       BUGS   If you find a bug, please report it at http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/list.

1.5.3								     May 2013								   IBUS(1)