1) download the latest source:
- optionnally read forum post http://forum.t-o-m-e.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21344 first
- optionnally take a look at http://gitorious.org/tome2/tome2
- open a terminal and cd to desired parent directory
> git clone git://gitorious.org/tome2/tome2.git tome2
Alternative: get the source of the latest "official" distribution, 2.3.5, but then the makefile has to be edited a bit more than what is described below, as the X11 directories are not those of a current system anymore (again, I did this on Ubuntu 10.04)
2) adapt the makefile and compile
> cd tome2/src
> cp makefile.std makefile
- edit makefile to remove non-existing main-dmy.o object
> make
3) create link and execute (must be in parent dir of lib/)
> cd ..
> ln -s src/tome .
> ./tome -- -n4 # replace 4 by desired number of windows
4) remaining problem: macros
the macro editors '@' and '$' don't work, at least under Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. : they don't let you choose a trigger but act as if a "null" key was pressed and then the game hangs.
- possible workarounds:
* manually add macros to pref files... but I have no clue what the correct keycodes are for function keys and such, after trying similar codes to those under windows - I wasn't able to make this really work
* run the latest windows binary under wine (a windows emulator). This works, but then it won't be the latest git version, but rather the last distributed one, 2.3.5, found here: http://t-o-m-e.net/dl/src/tome-235-src.tar.bz2
I tried to hack the source regarding the macro editor bug, but rapidly reached my incompetence level...
