>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