Hi all,

I'm using ubuntu 9.04. I use emacs for almost everything. I used emacs that I compiled from the source on my laptop. I liked the default font that came with it. So I never cared about the font. For some reasons I have to switch to another laptop where emacs is installed from the package. I donot want to go through compiling the source again.
I would like to know what is name of the default font in emacs. I donot like the default font that comes with the ubuntu package.

The font I'm talking about is the font that is usually found in most emacs written documents. Similar to this webpage (web browsers might render this differently) . And also this webpage.
describing font without knowing the name is difficult . The second link gives a better idea. (Hopefully :-))

Also I read about cse-huji-default-font but M-x describe-variable says it can not find the variable. (Is this related to my problem??)

So please let me know what the default font of emacs is how to set it.

Thanks.

Try this :
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~osigor/emacs/font.html#6

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Thanks for the reply,

I used the M-x describe-face to display all the current settings and played around with few options here and there :

used xlsfonts to see what fonts are available.
And then the somehow figured out the default fonts.

posting here just in case someone might need them in future:

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 (can be nil)

Thank you once again.