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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:08:32 +0300

> 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?