Subject: Re: bug#76935: 31.0.50; New frame ignores default-frame-alist

From: Jens Lechtenboerger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:06:34 +0100

On 2025-03-11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Jens Lechtenboerger <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:12:47 +0100
>> 
>> on Emacs master (see below for details), `default-frame-alist' does
>> not seem to work any more.  From emacs -Q, new frames (C-x 5 2)
>> appear in small windows (dimensions are shown as 15x7 when I click
>> on a window corner for resizing).
>> 
>> After executing the following (from the doc string of
>> `default-frame-alist'), nothing changes when creating new frames,
>> new windows are still at 15x7:
>> 
>> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 80) (height . 55) (menu-bar-lines . 1)))
>
> I cannot reproduce this.  Maybe this is specific to GTK?

Indeed.  With "./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid" the problem does
not arise.

Best wishes,
Jens