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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473903
--- Comment #1 from Bryan Mason bmason@redhat.com 2009-03-25 13:56:50 EDT --- I'm seeing this behavior as well with a dual-display IBM T41. The internal LCD is 1024x768 and the external is 1280x1024, so the total desktop size is 2304x1024. I'm using 8-pt Liberation fonts for my system fonts.
The font is wrong about half the time when I log in, and re-running gnome-appearance-properties resolves the issue.
One other behavior I noticed is that when the font is wrong, Ctl-Alt-L fails to lock the display.
Let me know if I there's any debugging and/or logging I can do to help figure this out.