Re: How to remove/replace Gnome2

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On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 15:10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> Is it possible to remove all of Gnome2 and then reinstall it again?
> After a panel crash and a battery applet segfault, Gnome2 has apparently
> become badly corrupted for all users on one of my systems (KDE still
> works fine). All title, menu, and foreground fonts are now about one
> pixel high and thus completely unusable. I've tried 'rpm -e' using a
> list of all of packages containing "gnome", but met with a snowstorm of
> dependency warnings.
> 
> Can anyone provide a step-by-step list I can follow to completely remove
> all G2 RPMs, configuration files, and directories so that I can then
> install a fresh working version from scratch?
> 
dont do this - to fix the problem try this from a terminal
gconftool-2 -s --type="string" /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name "Sans
13"

This should get your fonts back to a reasonable level and you can then
modify to taste from the gooey.

> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
> 
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