XFCE4 with GDM - Login Screen Format Configuration?

How does one adjust/configure basic things like the size of the GDM login screen in this environment? As it stands, it is much wider than my initial video mode allows, causing the Login button, for instance, to be off the right of the screen. I can still log on using Tab to the button and such, but how does one fix the format problem? Where is the configuration for the GDM login screen kept when using XFCE4 as the desktop manager? All the suggestions so far presume you are using GNOME and not XFCE4. Thanks!
- Michael

I don't know how to tell which xorg video drivers are installed but will happily check if you tell me how to do so.
Adding vga=773 to the linux kernel cmdline (e/edit/f10 in grub) has no effect (no change in symptoms). My xfce4 desktop has an initial resolution of 800x600, but automatically adjusts correctly when I fullscreen the VMware session with Ctrl+Alt-Enter, so I would have to say that xfce4 is performing properly after login. The grub login menu acts as if the screen was perhaps 1024 wide, but it gets clipped to an actual 800x600 graphic window during login.
This is in a VMware Workstation 7.1 virtual machine installed using 'Other Linux 2.6.x kernel 64-bit' which seemed to be the closest match to Arch.
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