This is probably silly but I don't have enough Elisp knowledge to understand what is going on with respect to quoting and evaluation.
Suppose I have this Elisp code:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . 100))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 50))
It will result in the expected default-frame-alist value:
((height 50)
(width 100))
But now if I have this:
(setq my-frame-width 100)
(setq my-frame-height 50)
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . my-frame-width))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . my-frame-height))
It will result in -
((height my-frame-height)
(width my-frame-width))
and, judging from the frame geometry, never evaluates those variables. How do I make the actual values of my-frame-width and height appear in this alist? Do I have too many quotes? But I cannot remove any from the add-to-list evaluations...