On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Turns out "newframe" is not an LFUN, it's a function I wrote back before Jürgen rewrote Beamer support (but which still works). It's shorthand for a rather lengthy command sequence. On my system, the definition is stored in ~/.lyx/commands/default.def, which I'm attaching. If you park that file in ~/.lyx/commands (or merge it into an existing default.def file, if present), things should work.
Paul, My installation is a bit different from yours. I have no commands subdirectory in ~/.lyx so I created one and moved default.def into it. Sure enough, after a reconfiguration and restart the shortcut works. Thanks very much, Rich