what creates fonts.alias?

[Russell Shaw]

Jeremy C. Reed 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?

Probably package installation scripts.

update-fonts-alias

http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/display_man.cgi?id=e70ce1c28b12eba0e774ea5ab724115b&format=plain

> There was a mkfontalias at http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#fuzzy for
> creating a fonts.alias from the fonts.dir for TrueType fonts. (But now 
> gone.)
> 
> I am sure something is with Xorg, but I am overlooking it.