Some additional information from a terminal where I ran metacity to get the windowing working.
tony@orac:~$ metacity &
[1] 1640
tony@orac:~$ Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2000003 (Authentica)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2000003 (Authentica)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Some additional information from a terminal where I ran metacity to get the windowing working.
tony@orac:~$ metacity & activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
[1] 1640
tony@orac:~$ Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2000003 (Authentica)
Window manager warning: meta_window_
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2000003 (Authentica)
Window manager warning: meta_window_