title: How do I get my Emacs to *always* use 6x13 on X11
body: <p>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 are probably easier ways to
  accomplish what I want in the most modern version of emacs.</p>
  
  <pre><code>GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
  on a GNU/Linux System (Ubuntu 8.10).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Let's
  ignore, for the moment, the fact that I also run emacs under Mac OS X
  (GUI+Terminal) and occasionally on Windows and just focus on the X11
  case:</p>
  
  <p>(Background: The font 6x13 has been part of X11 for as long as I can remember. (a.k.a
  misc-fixed semi-condensed ...). It's a bitmap font.)</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I want emacs to always use the X11 bitmap font 6x13. (This gives me two buffers next to eachother on my netbook.)</li>
  <li>I don't want to see DejaVu Sans Mono 16pt or whatever the heck comes up by default on my netbook (it's huge!)</li>
  <li>I want every new frame and window to use this font.</li>
  <li>I want derived faces (like org-mode-column) to use 6x13 font and not mysteriously switch back to DejaVu Sans Mono</li>
  <li>I don't care what GNOME and X11 think the logical DPI of my screen is. I want 6x13.</li>
  <li>When I remote into my netbook (NX Machine) I don't want to see 6x10. I want 6x13.</li>
  <li>In case there's any doubt: <em>I want 6x13</em>.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>What's the canonical way to do to make this happen?</p>
  
  <p>And before some smart-aleck tells me about menu: Options>>Set Default
  Font: the resulting dialog box doesn't even offer bitmap fonts, so
  there's no way to choose 6x13. Furthermore, it doesn't solve the
  problem with org-mode: table-views still come up with the wrong font.</p>