what creates fonts.alias?

[Dan Nicholson]

On 8/17/06, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> I installed fonts-misc-misc which uses bdftopcf, ucs2any (from font-util)
> mkfontscale, and mkfontdir.
>
> Starting Xnest (or Xorg) complains:
>
>   could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> I manually created the fonts.alias for this and that worked.
>
> The mkfontdir documents the fonts.alias file. But it doesn't say what
> creates the fonts.alias.
>
> Where does it come from?

font-alias-1.0.1
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font

Installs ${libdir}/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias which has the fixed alias.

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Dan