http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3762
Summary: Properly support using native X11 fonts at runtime Product: Wine Version: 0.9 Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: wine-gui AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: lamber45@cse.msu.edu
AFAIK Wine doesn't use native X fonts at all right now; it does everything with TrueType. There are situations where it would be nice to use X fonts alongside TTF. in particular, X comes with a pretty good selection of easy-to-read character-cell fonts in different sizes. It would be nice if PuTTY, Notepad, Visual Studio, etc. could be configured to use them -- I actually think they're easier to read than the standard Windows ones.
Ideally, there would be a per-app registry entry for X11 fonts to import and exclude.
Note that Wine originally used X11 fonts and did not support TrueType.