Where is config file of ibus stored?
Solution 1
For newer versions see Koterpillar's answer.
IIRC ibus
uses gconf
to store its settings so you should be able to use either gconf-editor
or gconftool
(CLI) to get/set those settings.
Solution 2
As of 1.5.11, IBus uses dconf. Here is (a snip of) its configuration obtained by: dconf dump /desktop/ibus/
[general]
use-system-keyboard-layout=false
preload-engines-inited=true
embed-preedit-text=false
use-global-engine=true
version='1.5.11'
engines-order=['xkb:us::eng', 'hangul', 'sunpinyin', 'm17n:ru:kbd']
preload-engines=['xkb:us::eng', 'm17n:ru:kbd', 'hangul', 'sunpinyin']
The changes applied by saving the output to a file (dconf dump /desktop/ibus/ > ibus.dconf
) and then loading it via dconf load /desktop/ibus/ < ibus.dconf
) have been applied without a restart of IBus.
Solution 3
I have seen the same thing elsewhere, that the configuration is stored in gconf
, and that you can edit that with command line tools.
But when I try that, it doesn't seem to have any effect. I am on Suse Linux 12.3.
To find out what to change, I first did a recursive-list of gconf
and saved it to a file:
gconftool-2 --recursive-list / > beforeConfig.txt
Then I started ibus-setup
, and did 'Select an Input Method', Japanese, Anthy, Add, Close.
Then I did another recursive-list:
gconftool-2 --recursive-list / > afterConfig.txt
Then I did a diff on the two files and saw that the only difference was with preload engines:
preload_engines = []
vs.
preload_engines = [anthy]
And that it was under /desktop/ibus/general
So I figured that starting over with ibus unconfigured, I could do the following to configure it:
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/ibus/general/preload_engines --type string "[anthy]"
After that, I did another recursive-list, and found it identical to the afterConfig.txt
one.
But then if I start ibus-setup
, it does not show any Input methods configured. And it does not work as if it is configured.
So is the configuration also stored somewhere else besides gconf
? Someplace that actually matters?
Or am I doing something wrong when setting the preload_engines
value?
I also tried it on Suse Linux 12.1, with the same results, except a somewhat different value for that key:
preload_engines = [anthy,m17n:ko:han2]
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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daisy almost 2 years
I'm wondering where is the config file of ibus stored? I checked
~/.config/ibus
, and there's only a dbus socket. And no ~/.ibus folder available. -
Adam Ryczkowski over 10 yearsNot on Ubuntu 13.10... I can't find the "ibus" phrase in gconf-editor. Ubuntu 13.10 uses ibus version 1.5.3