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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:48:03 -0400

> I tried gtk3 Emacs for the first time and found this behavior.
> 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.

That's the "canonical" way, so it should work.  IOW we have a bug.

        Stefan