On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:31:23AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > 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'
Well, i did restart the box and gnome was there again, but the font selection preference has a tendency to freeze gnome. Is there a reason for this, should i fill a bug report or investigate more ? Maybe i should do a full reinstall of my system, once the gnome2 situation has cleared itself. Friendly, Sven Luther
