ibus-caesar

ibus-caesar is a useless IBus input method. It allows writing Caesar cipher straight out of your keyboard, as well as ciphering or deciphering such codes on the fly.

Installation

No installation is actually required for a recreational use. Just run ibus-caesar.py -s and start typing. See ibus-caesar.py --help for more options and details.

It is however possible to install the input method system-wide. To do so, run:

$ make PREFIX=/usr
# make install PREFIX=/usr

You can change PREFIX to your liking (defaults to /usr/local), but there are two things to note:

1. Set PREFIX on both make and make install calls.
2. The IBus component will be installed in $PREFIX/share/ibus/component/, which might or might not be somewhere IBus looks at.

Also, remember to run make clean if you already ran make with another prefix.

Enabling the input method

If run manually, you can use the -s switch to set IBus' global-engine to caesar.

Regardless of the way ibus-caesar has been started, you can use ibus engine caesar to switch to that engine.

The caesar engine uses a shift to the right of 3. You can specify a different shift using caesar:2, caesar:25 or alike. Possible shift values are from 1 to 25.

Usage

Just type normally, and the basic ASCII letters will be ciphered according to the shift.

To cipher or decipher existing lines of text, move the cursor to such a line and type Ctrl+e for ciphering and Ctrl+Shift+e for deciphering.

Warning: This shifts input. It's damn annoying. And it won't stop until you switch to another input method or stop the ibus-caesar engine.

License

GPLv3+

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.