> Assuming that this problem affects all or most users of recent GNOME, it
 > would be fantastic to have this patch installed. It's a very unsatisfactory
 > fix (because we don't understand what the problem really is, or even where,
 > I think?), but the current situation is quite annoying (every time I open a
 > new Emacs frame, I first have to resize it before I can use it).
 > Thanks again to Martin; having myself had to do quite a lot of proxy
 > debugging of weird effects on systems I don't use, I appreciate the
 > patience and hard thought that goes into trying to diagnose and fix this
 > sort of bug.

I now added a variable called 'x-gtk-insist-on-requested-size'.  If
non-nil, it should do what its doc-string says.  The rest of the
attached patch is mostly what was in a diff I earlier posted as
gtkutil-reject-2024-10-02.diff.  Please try it.

Thanks, martin