I was modifying the LaTex Beamer theme and after modifying the footer file the navigation symbols of LaTex Beamer got diapered. How can I get them back in each slide. I tried to use \setbeamertemplate{footline}{}\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{\insertslidenavigationsymbol} and `%\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{\insertslidenavigationsymbol}' but running out of luck 🙁 Its not working at all.
And if possible please suggest me about how can I make these fancy navigation symbols little darker. Thank You
\documentclass[xcolor=x11names,compress]{beamer}
\usetheme{Darmstadt}
\useoutertheme[subsection=false,footline=authortitle]{miniframes}
\usefonttheme{serif}
\usepackage{palatino}
\setbeamerfont{title like}{shape=\scshape}
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{shape=\scshape}
\setbeamercolor*{lower separation line head}{bg=DeepSkyBlue4}
\setbeamercolor*{normal text}{fg=black,bg=white}
\setbeamercolor*{alerted text}{fg=red}
\setbeamercolor*{example text}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor*{structure}{fg=DeepSkyBlue4,bg=white}
\setbeamercolor*{palette tertiary}{fg=black,bg=black!10}
\setbeamercolor*{palette quaternary}{fg=black,bg=black!10}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\title{Fundamentals of X and Y}
\subtitle{Tutorial at Z 2009, Vienna, Austria}
\author{Gsomething Ksomething}
\institute{Department of Electrical Engineering \\ University of Something Comething}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% footline mod. from beamerouterthemeinfolines.sty
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setbeamercolor{author in head/foot}{fg=white,bg=}
\setbeamercolor{title in head/foot}{fg=white,bg=}
\setbeamercolor{date in head/foot}{fg=black,bg=}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{%
\setbox\beamer@tempbox=\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author 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}\insertshorttitle
\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%
\begin{pgfpicture}{0pt}{0pt}{\paperwidth}{0cm}%
\usebeamercolor{frametitle right}%
\pgfpathrectangle{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{\paperwidth}{3.5ex}}%
\pgfusepath{clip}%
\pgftext[left,base]{\pgfuseshading{beamer@frametitleshade}}%
\end{pgfpicture}%
\beamer@tempdim=\ht\beamer@tempbox%
\advance\beamer@tempdim by 0.95ex%
\vskip-\beamer@tempdim%
\box\beamer@tempbox%
}
\makeatother
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% titlepage mod. from beamerinnerthemedefault.sty
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setbeamertemplate{title page}
{
\vbox{}
\begingroup
\includegraphics[height=1.5cm]{example-grid-100x100bp}
\hfill
\includegraphics[height=1.5cm]{example-grid-100x100bp}\par
\vskip1em\par
\centering
\begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=true]{title}
\usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par%
\ifx\insertsubtitle\@empty%
\else%
\vskip0.25em%
{\usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par}%
\fi%
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\vskip1em\par
\begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=true]{author}
\usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor
\end{beamercolorbox}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=true]{institute}
\usebeamerfont{institute}\insertinstitute
\end{beamercolorbox}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=true]{date}
\usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate
\end{beamercolorbox}\vskip0.5em
{\usebeamercolor[fg]{titlegraphic}\inserttitlegraphic\par}
\hfill
\includegraphics[height=1.5cm]{example-grid-100x100bp}\par
\endgroup
\vfill
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% framtitle mod. from beamerouterthemeshadow.sty
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\colorlet{titleright}{yellow!10!white}
\colorlet{titleleft}{DeepSkyBlue4}
\colorlet{titlemid}{green!60!blue}
\makeatletter
\pgfdeclarehorizontalshading[titleleft,titleright]{beamer@frametitleshade}{\paperheight}{%
color(0pt)=(titleleft);
color(.5\paperwidth)=(titlemid);
color(\paperwidth)=(titleright)
}
\AtBeginDocument{
\pgfdeclareverticalshading{beamer@topshade}{\paperwidth}{%
color(0pt)=(bg);
color(4pt)=(black!50!bg)
}
}
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}
{%
\nointerlineskip%
\vskip-2pt%
\hbox{\leavevmode
\advance\beamer@leftmargin by -12bp%
\advance\beamer@rightmargin by -12bp%
\beamer@tempdim=\textwidth%
\advance\beamer@tempdim by \beamer@leftmargin%
\advance\beamer@tempdim by \beamer@rightmargin%
\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hbox{%
\setbox\beamer@tempbox=\hbox{\begin{minipage}[b]{\paperwidth}%
\vbox{}\vskip-.75ex%
\leftskip0.3cm%
\rightskip0.3cm plus1fil\leavevmode
\insertframetitle \hfill \raisebox{-0.8mm}{\includegraphics[height=0.5cm]{example-grid-100x100bp}}%
\ifx\insertframesubtitle\@empty%
\strut\par%
\else
\par{\usebeamerfont*{framesubtitle}{\usebeamercolor[fg]{framesubtitle}\insertframesubtitle}\strut\par}%
\fi%
\nointerlineskip
\vbox{}%
\end{minipage}}%
\beamer@tempdim=\ht\beamer@tempbox%
\advance\beamer@tempdim by 2pt%
\begin{pgfpicture}{0pt}{0pt}{\paperwidth}{\beamer@tempdim}
\usebeamercolor{frametitle right}
\pgfpathrectangle{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{\paperwidth}{\beamer@tempdim}}
\pgfusepath{clip}
\pgftext[left,base]{\pgfuseshading{beamer@frametitleshade}}
\end{pgfpicture}
\hskip-\paperwidth%
\box\beamer@tempbox%
}%
\hskip-\Gm@rmargin%
}%
\nointerlineskip
\vskip-0.2pt
\hbox to\textwidth{\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\pgfuseshading{beamer@topshade}\hskip-\Gm@rmargin}
\vskip-2pt
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[plain]
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\section{test}
\subsection{test}
\begin{frame}{test}
test
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
To add the Navigation again you have to add it to your custom footline definition.
and set the navigation symbols template back to default.
To change the color of the navigation symbols you have to set the corresponding beamer colors:
In my example I adjusted the default mixing ratio a little bit to get a darker output.