How to toggle between ibus and xkb?

I am using MX GNU/Linux v19 (Patito feo). I have installed these three packages with apt. 1. ibus 2. ibus-mozc 3. ibus-anthy I can confidently say that they got installed correctly as I can see this in the Japanese section of ibus-preferences. I can see the ibus icon in my panel too! but I still can't input Japanese. It is still using my xkb keyboards. So in this case How to temporarily switch to ibus? I wanted to know if there is any commands for fully activating **and** fully deactivating ibus? I would need both of them as I very often need to switch to my xkb-layouts too. I am planning to add keyboard shortcuts for both of those commands which I believe will make my life very easy :) GUI solutions are welcome as they will be useful for other users having similar issue. Thanks in advance.