I have the
following in my .Xresources:
Emacs.font: -misc-inconsolata-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
You can put what you want into .Xresources – no X client ever
reads this
file. Except one: xrdb. And it has the choice between
~/.Xresources and
~/.Xdefaults, by default. If xrdb's data base was not updated,
then GNU
Emacs does not see any changes in the selected base file.
The only effect this has is that list-fontsets is now one line longer:
Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default
Fontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard
Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup
But no inconsolata there :(