Subject: bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:13:09 +0300

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:03:01 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:48:09 +0900
> >> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <[email-masked]>
> 
> >> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
> >> its purpose:
> 
> >> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))
> 
> >> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.
> 
> > Did you try the same with initial-frame-alist, instead of
> > default-frame-alist?
> 
> Yes, I did.  Emacs frame contracted and expanded.

Well, this works for me, so it might indeed be GTK-specific.