You can change some visual characteristics of Emacs creating ~/.Xresources file (in your home directory). For example:
!Change default window size Emacs.geometry: 80x60+0+0 !Change font type and size Emacs*Font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 !Disable the toolbar Emacs*toolBar: 0 !Colors Emacs.background: white Emacs.foreground: black |
If you want to know all the font types available in your system use xlsfonts. To enable this configuration you have two options: restart the X Window/Xorg or execute this
$ cd $ xrdb .Xresources |
Any other customization on Emacs goes in ~/.emacs configuration file. You can write your own configuration by hand or using M-x customize-variable. An example?,... take a look to my own "dot emacs".
