diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 63eeda861..a621b8a13 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-02-26  Thomas Wood  <thos@gnome.org>
+
+	* configure.in: Increase required metacity version to 2.21.21
+
 2008-02-25  Thomas Wood  <thos@gnome.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Revert removal of FONTILUS and THEMUS substitution that
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b4748ba7e..7be2027d2 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DBUS, dbus-1 dbus-glib-1)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VFS_CAPPLET, $COMMON_MODULES gnome-vfs-module-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GNOME_DESKTOP, gnome-desktop-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEFAULT_APPLICATIONS_CAPPLET, libxml-2.0)
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(METACITY, libmetacity-private)
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(METACITY, libmetacity-private >= 2.21.21)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(TYPING, glib-2.0 > 2.11 gconf-2.0 gtk+-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBBACKGROUND, glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-2.0 gconf-2.0)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBSOUNDS, gio-2.0 libgnome-2.0 libgnomeui-2.0)