ibus-daemon(1)

ibus-daemon1

Daemon program for ibus

Usage

ibus-daemon [OPTION] ...

Overview

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-daemon is a daemon program for ibus and it is also a start up program for users to activate ibus daemon, engines and panel.

Help Options:

-h, --help

Show help options

Application Options:

-d, --daemonize

run ibus as background process.

-s, --single

do not execute panel and config module.

-x, --xim

execute ibus XIM server.

-n, --desktop=name

specify the name of desktop session. [default=gnome]

-p, --panel=cmdline

specify the cmdline of panel program.

-c, --config=cmdline

specify the cmdline of config program.

-a, --address=address

specify the address of ibus daemon.

-r, --replace

if there is an old ibus-daemon is running, it will be replaced.

-t, --cache=mode [default is auto]

force to re-scan components, and re-create registry cache. auto, refresh, none is available.

-o, --timeout=timeout [default is 2000]

dbus reply timeout in milliseconds.

-v, --verbose

verbose.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 6.0–7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13
  8. Arch

--mem-profile until Debian 9 (Stretch); --re-scan until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -m until Debian 9 (Stretch); -t until Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Bugs

If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues

From ibus 1.5.34-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.