Hi all,
Thanks for all the replies,

I, after going through couple of webpages, figured out this by trail using,
M-x describe-face
Family: DejaVu Sans Mono
       Foundry: unknown
         Width: normal
        Height: 121
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: black
    Background: white
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: #<font-object -unknown-DejaVu Sans
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
       Fontset: -unknown-DejaVu Sans
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
       Inherit: unspecified (I think by default this is nil)


On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> bhargava <bhargava470@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't know about what the default font is on different systems, but
> this is the line I'm using to configure the default face (I'm also on
> Ubuntu).
>
>  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 110 :family "DejaVu Sans Mono")
>
> Dan
>
> >
> > Thanks.
>



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