[Fontconfig] confused about <alias> <prefer>

[Keith Packard]

Around 7 o'clock on Feb 27, Alan Chandler wrote:

> I am not an expert, but I don't think Qt has a way of not specifying a
> family. If you try to create a QFont without a name it uses
> QApplication::font which is set to "Helvetica" by default.

Then just use the generic family name 'monospace' instead of 'fixed'
if you can.  'monospace', 'monospace' matches the same fonts as 
'monospace'...

-keith