IBUS(1) User Commands IBUS(1)
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)