Font rendering help please in Feisty

[Mike]

Mike wrote:
> I was fooling around with KDE today after installing the 
> kubuntu-desktop and changed some settings in there for the 
> font rendering. When I logged back in to Ubuntu to my default 
> Gnome desktop, the fonts were seriously messed up. I went back 
> in to a KDE session and set everything back the way it was but 
> it didn't improve anything in Gnome.
> 
> First off, how can changing something in KDE mess up the Gnome 
> desktop? I didn't change anything in Gnome at all. Since then 
> I've logged into another users Gnome desktop on this same 
> machine. Their font rendering is fine so I copied the 
> settings, checked my settings (system -> preferences -> font) 
> and they are exactly the same.
> 
> I have no idea what I did but I set everything back to the way 
> it was in KDE and I still have a mess. I've tried changing 
> settings in Gnome (then logging out and back in again) and 
> nothing seems to change the look of the fonts.
> 
> How do I get my gnome desktop back to the default font rendering?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
I forgot to mention the settings under gnome are:

Best Shapes
Resolution DPI: 96
Smoothing: Grayscale
Hinting: Medium
Subpixel Order: RGB

Exactly the same as the other users on this computer, yet 
their fonts appear perfectly normal.