---
name: "scim-im-agent"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "scim-im-agent"
version: "1.4.18+git20211204-0.2+b4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/scim-im-agent"
---

# scim-im-agent(1)

scim-im-agent was previously known as scim-bridge and is yet another IM client of SCIM. The im-module of scim-im-agent communicates with scim via socket.

## NAME

scim-im-agent — scim-im-agent was previously known as scim-bridge and is yet another IM client of SCIM. The im-module of scim-im-agent communicates with scim via socket.

## SYNOPSIS

**scim-im-agent;** \[**-h** *--help\]  \[***-v***--verbose\]  \[***-q***--quiet\]  \[***-b***--debugflags\]  \[***-l***--debuglevel\]  \[***-standalone***--standalone\]  \[***-n***--noexit\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the* **scim-im-agent** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

## OPTIONS

The program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of options is included below.

- **-h** **--help**

  Give this help list.

- **-v** **--verbose**

  Verbosely print out the debug message into standard output.This option equals to '--debuglevel=9 --debugflags=all'.

- **-q** **--quiet**

  Make it print no debug message at all.This option equals to '--debuglevel=0 --debugflags=none'.

- **-b** **--debugflags**

  Set which category of debug output do you need.Select one or more from 'all', 'none', 'agent', 'messenger', 'imcontext', and 'scim'.

- **-l** **--debuglevel**

  Set how verbosely should it print debug output.'--debuglevel=0' equals to '--quiet', and '--debuglevel=9' equals to '--verbose'.

- **-standalone** **--standalone**

  Given this, scim-brige-agent won't daemonize itself.

- **-n** **--noexit**

  Given this, scim-brige-agent won't exit when there is no client.

## AUTHOR

scim-bridge was originally written by Ryo Dairiki.

This manual page was written by Zhengpeng Hou zhengpeng-hou@ubuntu.com for the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.