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On Wednesday, October 7th, 2015, at 11:42:45h +0200,
Michael Heerdegen explained:

>     ;; let the first frame appear according to `default-frame-alist'
>     (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) default-frame-alist)
> 
> in the init file can work around that problem.  The starting frame is a
> bit special in Emacs.

Thanks for the explanation and the solution.

I had always wondered why it never seemed to behave quite as expected.