Old peeve still in 27

Is it me?? I keep three or four PCs on my desk (behind a Trendnet KVM switch), plus other machines elsewhere; the desk trio are all running F 27, Mate/Compiz. One old bad thing and a similar new one, irritating at best, are happening. The old one is that the size of my Mate Terminal, particularly its font, often changes when I reboot. So I have to re-edit half a dozen profiles before I can use them: the new size is usually either eye- splittingly small to read, or so big that no ordinary sentence will stay on a single line. The new and worse one is that the same thing has started happening to my panels. (I keep four, with lots of launchers on each.) Enlarging a panel makes several launchers disappear; as it is, I have to keep a couple smaller than I like in order to make stuff fit. If something in my configs is doing this, what, and how can I fix it? If it's Fedora, let me know what more data to supply, please! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.