On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 02:24, Sven LUTHER wrote: [...] > let's just change the font setting. I got to the preference, (the menu > entries were still there, how nice) choose the font item, and got to > change the size of the fonts. But in the process of doing this, the > fonts selction applet hang, and i had to go out of X and kill gnome > (well i /etc/init.d/gdm restart), and since then, no more gnome.
Try using gconftool-2 to reset the font. Something like: gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name -t string 'Sans 12'
