Apple X11 - can we guarantee the resize handle is visible?

[skip at pobox.com]

So I ssh'd into my machine at work from my Mac at home and ran

    gnuclient -q

to connect to the XEmacs instance I left running over the weekend.  I don't
recall what the font/font size settings were, but the resulting 80x63 frame
that popped up on my Mac extended beyond the bottom of the display.  The
Mac's GUI places a single resize handle in the bottom right-hand corner of
each window.  Since it was off-screen I was unable to interactively resize
the frame.  After a bit of fussing with the font and font size menus I got
to a combination which was small enough to show the entire frame.  After I
shrunk the window enough, a little more font/font size fiddling resulted in
a frame which displayed reasonably.  It would have been nicer if when
creating the frame in the first place XEmacs had reduced the number of lines
in the frame so that the resulting X window was fully contained by the
display.  Is this somehow possiable?

Thanks,

Skip Montanaro