How to disable font anti-aliasing?

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How to disable font anti-aliasing?

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Hallo,
i'm not sure what happened recently but font anti-aliasing (font smoothing, subpixel rendering) is now bound to my xfce system setting (that is 'ON' indeed). Wine never honored that before. Wine apps (with Tahoma) were always pixel-exact and clear without any sub-pixel rendering. I want that back. The only way to temporarily restore that state is to change the host font settings (in xfce) or the command below (that actually is the same).

This command floating around net:
xrdb -query | grep -vE 'Xft\.(anti|hint|rgba)'

Its not the most intelligent one-liner and most people do not even understand it. The important thing is that it's neither a valid solution nor is it persistent (gone after reboot).

I already tried 'ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore = N' and 'ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender = N' in 'regedit' and 'winetricks settings fontsmooth=disable' but it doesn't help.

Any other ideas?

Arch Linux 5.9.4
wine-5.21
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