[Tex/LaTex] beamer – change titlepage not to show details in headline/footline

beamerheader-footertitles

I am using the Berlin theme to create a presentation with beamer. I like the fact that the headline and footline show the navigation, author, etc, but I would like to hide that information on the titleslide, as it is already displayed there, and have it appear again on all following slides.

I, however, do not want to lose the head- and footline themselves (using \setbeamertemplate{headline}{} for example just makes the whole headline disappear).

This question is somewhat similar to mine, but I tried modifying the code showed there, which did not work for me (see MWE below).

MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}

\title{Title}
\author{Jane Doe}
\institute{University of Foo}
\date{\today}

% Beamer setup
\usetheme{Berlin}
\usecolortheme{spruce}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

\renewcommand*{\slideentry}[6]{} % hide subsection bullets and remove space

\begin{document}

%\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\frame{\titlepage}

%\setbeamertemplate{headline}[headline theme]
\section{Test}
\begin{frame}
  Test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Best Answer

Instead of doing all trouble to acutually remove the information from head/footline, it can simply be hidden by setting the font colour equal to the background colour.

\documentclass{beamer}

\title{Title}
\author{Jane Doe}
\institute{University of Foo}
\date{\today}

% Beamer setup
\usetheme{Berlin}
\usecolortheme{spruce}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

\renewcommand*{\slideentry}[6]{} % hide subsection bullets and remove space

\begin{document}

{
\setbeamercolor{author in head/foot}{use=palette secondary, fg=palette secondary.bg} 
\setbeamercolor{title in head/foot}{use=palette tertiary, fg=palette tertiary.bg} 
\setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{use=palette tertiary, fg=palette tertiary.bg}
\frame{\titlepage}
}

%\setbeamertemplate{headline}[headline theme]
\section{Test}
\begin{frame}
  Test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: Removing headline and its space on a single frame (for plan), but keeping the footline

Ok, after more investigation (in the beamer sources :)), I have found the solution. For those who will search like me in the future, here it is in a simple small example :

{ % to delimit a block (we only want to remove the header for this frame)
\makeatletter % to change template
    \setbeamertemplate{headline}[default] % not mandatory, but I though it was better to set it blank
    \def\beamer@entrycode{\vspace*{-\headheight}} % here is the part we are interested in :)
\makeatother
\begin{frame}{Table of contents} % and our simple frame
    \tableofcontents
\end{frame}
}

It is also possible to define an environment to be able to use it more easily. To do so, use this part of code before the \begin{document} :

\makeatletter
    \newenvironment{withoutheadline}{
        \setbeamertemplate{headline}[default]
        \def\beamer@entrycode{\vspace*{-\headheight}}
    }{}
\makeatother

And for your frame :

\begin{withoutheadline}
    \begin{frame}{Table of contents} % and our simple frame
        \tableofcontents
    \end{frame}
\end{withoutheadline}

Hope this will help :)

Enjoy!

[Tex/LaTex] Redefining infolines in beamer

You are missing a final closing brace in the headline definition:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}

\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=2.75ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{section in head/foot}\insertshorttitle\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}% <- this closing brace was missing
}

\setbeamertemplate{footline}{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshortauthor
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshortinstitute
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
    \insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex} 
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\makeatother

\author{The Author}
\title{The Title}
\institute{The Institute}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

I took the liberty to slightly increase the height for the box in the headline (this is just a suggestion, of course, and you can revert to your original settings).

To suppress the headline and footline, use the plain option for frame; to suppress one template only, redefine it locally to be empty:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}

\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=2.75ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{section in head/foot}\insertshorttitle\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
}

\setbeamertemplate{footline}{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshortauthor
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshortinstitute
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
    \insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex} 
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\makeatother

\author{The Author}
\title{The Title}
\institute{The Institute}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]
test
\end{frame}

\begingroup
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}
\endgroup

\begingroup
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}
\endgroup

\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

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[Tex/LaTex] Redefining infolines in beamer

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