Re: How to restore the layout?

[martin rudalics]

> AFAIK, you will never be able to get rid of the frame created initially,
> which has its own minibuffer.  That was the point here.  If you want a
> standalone minibuffer frame, and if you want it to be the only such
> (which I would again argue is the typical case of MF users), then AFAIK
> you must create the MF at the outset.

With emacs -Q

(let ((frame (selected-frame))
      frame-1 frame-2)
  (setq frame-1 (make-frame '((minibuffer . only))))
  (setq default-minibuffer-frame frame-1)
  (setq frame-2 (make-frame '((minibuffer . none))))
  (delete-frame frame))

martin