Legacy Xorg fonts.alias matching does not work anymore

I have # xset -q [...] Font-Path: /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,built-ins [...] and for example a /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias, that defines "fixed": (cd /usr/share/fonts; grep '^fixed' */fonts.alias) cyrillic/fonts.alias misc/fonts.alias and I though that the fonts.alias would match for fontnames: # xlsfonts -fn fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 fixed (though the encoding iso8859-1 isn't even listed in any fonts.dir), actually # grep '^fixed' */fonts.alias # in /usr/share/fonts misc/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 that seems the right match, but # grep '^7x13bold' */fonts.alias misc/fonts.alias:7x13bold -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 I get # xlsfonts -fn 7x13bold xlsfonts: pattern "7x13bold" unmatched and # xfig Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct so as far as I used to understand it, the XServer **should** match against fonts.alias, but doesn't. How does the Xorg Server matches fixed otherwise and fails to match 7x13bold or any other short form? _Please don't tell me about fontconfig. I know fontconfig and how to use it, but that does **not** help with legacy XLoadFont operation that XFig uses, for example._ May I need a xfontserver? I can't even see a gentoo package for the old xfs, possible because of security issues. Any further ideas welcome!