I opened the Screen Resolution preference program and took a screenshot. The artifacts to the right of the gnome-terminal are compiz artifacts I don't much care about. You can see that the program is detecting a resoltion of 1280x800 while the actual monitor is an LCD at 1280x1024. The really pixelated bits at the bottom of the shot do not appear on my screen.
I opened the Screen Resolution preference program and took a screenshot. The artifacts to the right of the gnome-terminal are compiz artifacts I don't much care about. You can see that the program is detecting a resoltion of 1280x800 while the actual monitor is an LCD at 1280x1024. The really pixelated bits at the bottom of the shot do not appear on my screen.