Re-establishing startup gnome files for user

[William C Brennan <compraxis comcast net>]

Folks,

Somehow the gnome theme manager can no longer write out the .gtkrc 
file for me under one of my user names.   In particular, I'm trying 
to customize the font for GTK, but can't.  When I log in as a 
different user, and consequently use startup resource files in a 
different home directory, I have no problems performing the same type 
of change.  Being a neophyte, I have no idea what went wrong.

I'd be happy if I could somehow re-establish the initial set of files 
which Gnome & GTK associate with this username, as Gnome must do, I 
presume, whenever a new user is created.

Can someone give me a hint how to remove the old Gnome user files and 
replace with them with a spanking brand-new set?  Presumably, I'll be 
able to customize my GTK+ font after that.

Thanks for your help!

-- Bill
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compraxis comcast net
Bill Brennan
Wayne, PA