Re: Emacs default font

[Steve Revilak]

> From: bhargava <bhargava470@gmail.com>

> Hi all,
> I would like to know what is the name of the default font in emacs. I
> donot like the default font that comes with the ubuntu package. I used
> emacs that I compiled from the source. For some reasons now I'm stuck up
> with the emacs installed from the ubuntu repo. I liked the default font
> that came with it. So I never cared about the font.  I read some where
> about cse-huji-default-font but could not find this using the M-x
> command. (describe-variable).
>
> The font I'm talking about is some what similar to the font in this web
> page http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ .
>
> So please let me know what the default font of emacs is how to set it.

X11 resources are a common way to specify fonts.

To give an example, I have 

  $ egrep ^emacs.font ~/.Xresources
  emacs.font: -unknown-DejaVu Sans 
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1

Which is reasonably close to the font shown in 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/.

There are two things to keep in mind when experimenting with
Xresources.

 - If you edit a resource, you have to load it into the current X11
   session.  This can done with
 
      xrdb < ~/.Xresources

   (You'll probably want to look at the xrdb and appres manual pages)

 - X11 resources are loaded at application startup.  You'll need to
   restart emacs after making changes.

Steve

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