So, ~24 hours without infinality. First of all, i removed fontconfig-infinality and the patched libfreetype6 as described in bubuxp's instructions, like so
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# dpkg --purge --force-depends libfreetype6 fontconfig-infinality
# apt-get install libfreetype6
then deleted /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99infinality-settings by hand and rebooted. I kept the fonts which were listed as dependencies for fontconfig-infinality because they are kodi's dependencies as well. First thing I noticed after the reboot is that all text looks a little bit taller and the font on the terminal (andale mono 10, black or colored text on white background) looks fatter. White text on dark background looks good enough and white text on black background looks as crappy as on my screenshot some posts ago (that was freetype 2.7 or 2.8 from experimental) . Black text on white background however looks great. On web pages, in general, text seems a bit bigger, unless it is on pages, eg facebook, where 9pt or smaller size is forced, where it is small enough to be unreadable unless I move my head closer to the monitor. Plus, text on some pages is rendered completely un-antialiased and appears blocky.
So, I thought of changing my fonts after all these years. A friend advised me to switch to noto 10 or roboto 10. They look good, but they are slimmer than verdana 10 and they have a small issue. Although they are both sans serif fonts, they do have serifs for greek letters (screenshots here*).
So I rejected them. I also changed my terminal's font to hack 12. I can not use inconsolata there because it does not support greek encoding.
What else can I do? I do not have an ~/.Xresources file and xrdb -query now only returns this
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$ xrdb -query
*customization: -color
Do I have to make one now? And on dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config I have selected native, automatic and yes for the options provided.
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https://imgur.com/a/7MjIa