IBUS-SETUP(1)

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version 1.5.34 · 10 versions
, in alpine 3.24, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💖 IBUS-SETUP — the ibus setup era 💖

okay bestie, so this is ibus-setup, a page from section 1 of the manual (User Commands, if you're keeping track 👑).

✨ NAME ✨

ibus-setup — the configuration program for ibus, no cap 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ibus-setup

that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk: IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. she's a whole new input framework for Linux OS and she ate fr fr 💖 She gives you a fully featured AND user friendly input method user interface — both, bestie, she said why not both ✨ She also lowkey helps developers develop input methods easily, which is giving generous queen energy ngl 🫶

ibus-setup is THE configuration program for IBus. like, this is where you go to make her look and feel how you want 🎀

Homepage is right here, go be nosy: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki 🌈

⭐ ADVANCED ⭐

💜 Use system keyboard layout

If you turn this one ON, IBus uses your system keymap instead, and she will NOT change it with any input method engines. periodt. 🦋

The system keymap is decided by your desktop session, so it's giving "your session, your rules" 💅

Here's the tea though: IBus calls the setxkbmap(1) command internally to set the selected keymap, and she overrides the system keymap if this option is disabled. so like, this toggle actually matters, bestie 👀

Wanna vibe check your current keymap? Just run:

setxkbmap -query

and she'll tell you everything 💖

🌸 Share the same input method among all applications

If this option is disabled, you can choose an input method engine by input context — so like, different apps can have different engines, main character energy per context ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

not me finding a bug 🙈 if you find one too, please report it here, they genuinely wanna know:

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues

no gatekeeping bugs, bestie. report her. it's a public service 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • ibus(1) — the parent, the icon, the blueprint 💖

okay that's the whole page!! this was written for version 1.5.34, dated November 2017 (yes she's a vintage icon, we stan a classic 🎀), and it lives under the manual page name IBUS-SETUP(1). go configure something cute bestie, ily, mwah 💖✨🦋🌸

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