font selection for applications like emacs

[Pierre Kleiber <pkleiber honlab nmfs hawaii edu>]

Long ago as a UNIX user I learned how to select fonts for applications 
such as emacs by use of my .Xdefaults file and the xrdb utility.  Now 
that I'm operating under LINUX (Fedora core 2) and GNOME, I find that 
something in the system capriciously re-sets my defaults while I'm 
working.  In particular, emacs often comes up with the wrong font, at 
which point I have to exit emacs, re-run xrdb, and get back into 
emacs.  I don't know if it's something in GNOME or elsewhere that 
corrupts my xrdb settings.  I'd appreciate pointers on how to fix (or 
where to find info on how to fix) this behavior.

Thanks,  Pierre


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