IBUS.CONF(5)

📦 version 1.5.34, in centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

okay bestie, sit down, we're reading the manual for IBUS.CONF(5) together 💅 it's filed under User Commands, and it's literally just a lil config file page, but it's important so pay attention 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ibus.conf — the X input preload/configuration file for ibus. that's it. that's the whole name section. short queen ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus.conf

one path. one file. she's lowkey simple like that 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so IBus? stands for Intelligent Input Bus, no cap. it's an input framework for Linux OS, and it's giving brand new, main character energy in the input-method world. it hands you a full-featured, user-friendly input method user interface — and it also helps developers build input methods easily, which is honestly so generous of it 😭

ibus.conf is a configuration file holding X input setting values, and the way it works is: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common reads it and sets it. imsettings-switch(1) gets called from XDG auto-start and it invokes xinitrc-common. it's a whole relay race and everyone's slaying 💅

if this file is the alias of /etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc for the system setting, or [$XDG_CONFIG_HOME|$HOME/.config]/imsettings/xinputrc for the user setting, then the setting can be default. and im-chooser(1) can choose the user setting, which is very much the choose-your-own-adventure of it all 🎀

the configuration options are, and yes bestie we're listing every single one:

  • XIM — the XIM name for XMODIFIERS.
  • XIM_PROGRAM — the XIM executable program name.
  • XIM_ARGS — the XIM arguments for XIM_PROGRAM.
  • SHORT_DESC — the XIM human readable name, for im-chooser(1).
  • ICON — icon file, for im-chooser(1).
  • PREFERENCE_PROGRAM — XIM setup program, for im-chooser(1).
  • GTK_IM_MODULE — IM environment valuable for GTK+ applications.
  • QT_IM_MODULE — IM environment valuable for QT applications.

periodt. eight of them. count them, they're all there 🌈

😭 BUGS 😭

if you find a bug — and bestie, you might — please report it at http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/list 🙈 they wanna hear about it fr fr, don't gatekeep your bug report.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those next, iykyk 👑

k that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 this was version 1.5.3, dated August 2013 — so she's a vintage icon, a true elder of the input method game, and she still serves 💜 mwah, love u, go configure ur X input 💖✨

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