Here are my patches to make CTWM work with GNOME. This is for GNOME 1.x.
Please note: GNOME 2.x and KDE use a different standard for communicating with the window manager, so this version of ctwm will not work properly with those environments. I hope to implement this new standard eventually.

The features that work with gnome 1.x:
• multiple workspaces
• task list
• shading/unshading
• hiding/unhiding
• setting windows to be sticky (all workspaces) or just one workspace
• clicks on the root menu

The features that don't work, and bugs:
• layers
• size hints
• windows that occupy multiple workspaces but not all workspaces are not supported by gnome, so such a window will only show up in the task list for one workspace.
• moving windows between workspaces in the pager

Although I can't promise that ctwm is stable with these patches, they work well for me, and I now use the gnome pager rather than the ctwm workspace manager and icon managers. If you have problems, suggestions, requests or comments, please email me: nhd+ctwmg@andrew.cmu.edu

A screenshot of my desktop, using ctwm and the gnome panel

Download the tar (based on ctwm-3.6)

The changes to the source.

Note that to build ctwm, you need to use xmkmf to create the Makefile - there is no configure script. You do not need to have gnome installed or running to use these patches, but you won't gain any features if you don't use gnome.

last updated 1.04.2003