[Tex/LaTex] Custom slide titles in beamer

beamerheader-footerpositioning

My slides have a particular PDF background and I would like to force slide-titles to appear in a particular place on each slide without a blue box underneath them. I want the \frametitle{} command to place my title in white text, flush right, at the top right of my slide with no surrounding box or anything. Is this possible? More generally, is it possible to get LaTeX/beamer to draw textboxes (with line/fill options) in specific places on slides?

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Since I don't have your background, I'm opting for red text instead of white. Depending on what you really want, you may want to adjust the font and right margin.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{default}
\setbeamersize{text margin right=0pt} % Beamer manual, section 8.3
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=red} % Beamer manual, section 16.3
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}
{
\hfill\insertframetitle
}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{This is the frame title}
Here's some more content. Here's some more content. Here's some more content.
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Positioning logo in the front page as well as slides

Question 1: You can use any of the fields given by \author, \title, \date, or \institute to place the image in the title page; if none of those fields allow you to achieve the desired placement, you can use the textpos package. The example below uses the \author field to add the image.

Question 2: With the help of the textpos package you can add the logo to the frametitle template using \addtobeamertemplate.

A simple example code:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\usecolortheme{beaver}
\usepackage{textpos}

\title{The title}
\author[The author]{\includegraphics[height=1cm,width=2cm]{cat}\\The Author}
\institute[Inst.]{The Institute}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}

\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{}{%
\begin{textblock*}{100mm}(.85\textwidth,-1cm)
\includegraphics[height=1cm,width=2cm]{cat}
\end{textblock*}}

\begin{frame}{Motivation}
Now the logo is visible
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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As osjerick mentions in a comment, the above solution won't behave correctly if \framesubtitle is used (the image will shift downwards); in this case, a TikZ approach can be used to prevent the movement:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\usecolortheme{beaver}
\usepackage{tikz}

\title{The title}
\author[The author]{\includegraphics[height=1cm,width=2cm]{cat}\\The Author}
\institute[Inst.]{The Institute}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}

\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[anchor=north east,yshift=2pt] at (current page.north east) {\includegraphics[height=0.8cm]{cat}};
\end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{frame}{Motivation}
Now the logo is visible
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Motivation}
\framesubtitle{A}
Now the logo is visible
\end{frame}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer – Dresden theme: miniframes appeareance and frame number insertion

The Dreden theme uses as outer theme miniframes specifying that the footline is of type authorinstitutetitle

\useoutertheme[footline=authorinstitutetitle]{miniframes}

Thus, to insert the frame number (command \insertframenumber) with respect to the total frame number (command \inserttotalframenumber) we should take into account how the authorinstitutetitle is defined:

\def\beamer@theme@footline@authorinstitutetitle{
  \defbeamertemplate*{footline}{miniframes theme}
  {%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{upper separation line foot}
    \end{beamercolorbox}
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
      leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{author in head/foot}%
      \leavevmode{\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor}%
      \hfill%
      {\usebeamerfont{institute in head/foot}\usebeamercolor[fg]{institute in head/foot}\insertshortinstitute}%
    \end{beamercolorbox}%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
      leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{title in head/foot}%
      {\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle}%
    \end{beamercolorbox}%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{lower separation line foot}
    \end{beamercolorbox}
  }
}

Now, in the lower right corner there's nothing thus it is possible to exploit the space in:

\begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
   leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{title in head/foot}%
   {\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle}%
 \end{beamercolorbox}%

by adding:

\begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
      leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{title in head/foot}%
      {\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle}%
      \hfill%
      {\usebeamerfont{frame number}\usebeamercolor[fg]{frame number}\insertframenumber~\frameofframes~\inserttotalframenumber}

Notice that as separator between the frame numbers there's a command: \frameofframes. It is defined as:

\newcommand{\frameofframes}{/}
\newcommand{\setframeofframes}[1]{\renewcommand{\frameofframes}{#1}}

This allows you to modify the standard representation (1/5 for example), with something else; for instance:

\setframeofframes{of}

will provide 1 of 5.

The code:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usetheme{Dresden}

\author{My name}
\title{My presentation}
\institute{My institute}

\newcommand{\frameofframes}{/}
\newcommand{\setframeofframes}[1]{\renewcommand{\frameofframes}{#1}}

\setframeofframes{of}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
  {%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{upper separation line foot}
    \end{beamercolorbox}
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
      leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{author in head/foot}%
      \leavevmode{\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor}%
      \hfill%
      {\usebeamerfont{institute in head/foot}\usebeamercolor[fg]{institute in head/foot}\insertshortinstitute}%
    \end{beamercolorbox}%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
      leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{title in head/foot}%
      {\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle}%
      \hfill%
      {\usebeamerfont{frame number}\usebeamercolor[fg]{frame number}\insertframenumber~\frameofframes~\inserttotalframenumber}
    \end{beamercolorbox}%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{lower separation line foot}
    \end{beamercolorbox}
  }
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\section{One}
\subsection{One-one}

\frame{\frametitle{X-one} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-a} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-b} bla bla bla}

\subsection{One-two}

\frame{\frametitle{X-one} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-a} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-b} bla bla bla}


\section{Two}
\subsection{Two-one}

\frame{\frametitle{X-one} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-a} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-b} bla bla bla}

\subsection{Two-two}

\frame{\frametitle{X-one} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-a} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-b} bla bla bla}

\section{Three}
\subsection{Three-one}

\frame{\frametitle{X-one} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-a} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-b} bla bla bla}

\subsection{Three-two}

\frame{\frametitle{X-one} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-a} bla bla bla}
\frame{\frametitle{X-one-b} bla bla bla}

\end{document}

One frame as result:

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