How to draw borders around slides in latex beamer handouts - latex

I am using the LaTeX beamer package. How do I draw a border around each slide when I use the handout format (eg. {4 on 1}). I would like to have something silmilar to the "-d" option available in Unix "psnup" which I used with my old seminar style slides and PostScript output.

This adds a rectangle around each logical page:
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[a4paper, landscape, border shrink=5mm]
\pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{1}{border code=\pgfusepath{stroke}}
\pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{2}{border code=\pgfusepath{stroke}}
\pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{3}{border code=\pgfusepath{stroke}}
\pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{4}{border code=\pgfusepath{stroke}}

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I’ve been trying for the days now to format attractive code listings in lyx for an Erlang programming book that I’m working on.
The tcolorbox package looks like it should do the trick, but frustrates me at every turn,
Requirements:
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Document > Settings > Modules > Fancy Colored Boxes > Add > Apply
Insert > Custom Insets > Color Box
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\LetLtxMacro\latexincludegraphics\includegraphics
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So I am using the flashcard software Anki which uses LaTex for its math equation formatting
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Is there such a thing in LateX?
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\begin{quotation}
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Quote is suited to a single block of quoted text.
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