How do I get my Emacs to *always* use 6x13 on X11

Question

I recently declared .emacs bankrupcy and reorganized my init stuff. In the process, I ripped out all the hacky font selection stuff I had accrued over the years, figuring there

Answer 1

You want to set the default frame parameters in your .emacs.

• find out the name of the font you want to use
• add the needed value to the default-frame-alist.

The easiest way, actually, is to use customize and customize default-frame-alist, but can also use elisp and write

(setq default-frame-alist 
   '(font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-hiramin_w6"))

That's stolen from my emacs, you'll need to find the full font name (xfontsel?) for the font you want.

See also the EmacsWiki on setting fonts and faces.