[Fontconfig] Transition from X Bitmapped fonts to Fontconfig

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:57:15 +0000, Mark Selby wrote:

> My issue is that I cannot seem to get Emacs to use this font. I can
> not choose Fixed from the font menu or use the -font command line
> option to get a fixed font that looks anything like the old font that
> I am used to.

Is this
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/623748/how-do-i-get-my-emacs-to-always-use-6x13-on-x11>
(from quite a few years ago) useful? It says you have to set that in
your ~/.Xresources file, or possibly your .emacs.