Maybe that's the explanation, but I don't think so - I still
think something else is going on with your Fedora setup - I
haven't ever had to deal with the issue you're seeing, except
when my screen resolution was improperly set by the automatic
mechanisms, so, I just can't offer any other suggestions.

Well , and are you using KDE or Gnome, they both have different font rendering ...

Thanks,

D.