Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for no good reason. Should be merged with the status line.
The minibuffer is not accessible by M-x when no buffer is loaded. When killing LyX in the xterm using C-c, the session file is corrupted and further LyX starts are impossible. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/lyx/profile/src > ./lyx LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: [recent [EMAIL PROTECTED] LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }9""\newcommand{\noun}[1]{\textsc{#1}}YBB\newcommand{\lyxarrow}{\leavevmode\,$\triangleright$\,\allowbreak}���\ProvideTextCommandDefault{\quotedblbase}{% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }���\ProvideTextCommandDefault{\quotesinglbase}{% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }���\ProvideTextCommandDefault{\guillemotleft}{% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: \penalty10000\hskip0pt\relax% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }���\ProvideTextCommandDefault{\guillemotright}{% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }�ss\ProvideTextCommandDefault{\guilsinglleft}{% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }�nn\ProvideTextCommandDefault{\guilsinglright}{% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: }���\newenvironment{LyXParagraphLeftIndent}[1]% LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: { LyX: Warning: unknown Session section: } I still think that the session stuff is a GUI thingy and belongs to the frontends and can there make use of frontend specific code. Andre'