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The document discusses customizing the mini frame navigation and colors in a Beamer presentation theme. The question asks how to change the color of the active section in the navigation to gold and make inactive sections brighter. Answers suggest defining the headline and frametitle templates separately. The code provided defines the templates and colors separately, showing how to position the frame title in the headline while maintaining separate definitions. This allows customizing each independently for the desired navigation appearance.

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The document discusses customizing the mini frame navigation and colors in a Beamer presentation theme. The question asks how to change the color of the active section in the navigation to gold and make inactive sections brighter. Answers suggest defining the headline and frametitle templates separately. The code provided defines the templates and colors separately, showing how to position the frame title in the headline while maintaining separate definitions. This allows customizing each independently for the desired navigation appearance.

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Customize mini frame navigation

I'm trying to create my own beamer theme; I want to use a mini frame navigation in headline (included by using
\insertnavigation ) but the colors not working as I want them yet.

Heres the output of my headline:

When going forward in the presentation, the current active section is shown in black. How can I change its color to the gold I've
already used?

Also Id like to change the shading of inactive sections to get them a little brighter than they are at the moment.

Heres the important part of my colortheme.sty and the outertheme.sty :

% Setzt Deep Harlequin (dunkler)


\definecolor{jvagreen}{RGB}{22, 89, 0}

% Setzt Vivid Gold (dunkler)


\definecolor{jvagold}{RGB}{231, 202, 0}

% Farbe der Elemente der headline


\setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{fg = jvagold, bg = jvagreen}

=====================================================================

% Komprimiert die miniframe Kreise auf eine Linie


\beamer@compresstrue

% Definiert die headline


\setbeamertemplate{headline}
{
\usebeamercolor{seperation line}
% Bindet die Grafik ein
\includegraphics[width=0.15\paperwidth]{Wappen_JvA}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.85\paperwidth,right]{section in head/foot}
\rule{0.85\paperwidth}{1pt}
%Vertikaler Abstand
\vskip10pt
%Fgt die Standard-Navi ein (miniframes)
\insertnavigation{0.85\paperwidth}
\vskip8pt
\rule{0.85\paperwidth}{0.5pt}
\vskip7.5pt
% Horizontaler Abstand
\leftskip=10pt
% Fgt den frametitle an dieser Stelle ein
\insertframetitle
\vskip20pt
\leftskip=0pt
\rule{0.85\paperwidth}{1pt}
\end{beamercolorbox}
}

If you have any ideas on how to change it in the way I want it to be or suggestions / improvements to my code, please let me
know ;)

{beamer} {color} {navigation} {mini-frames}

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1 \insertframetitle won't be recognized inside the headline template. You need to set the
headline and frametitle templates separately. Gonzalo Medina May 28 '12 at 14:57

Well he's giving me a compile error, but basically it works ;) He inserts the frame title as asked. Could u
show me how to separate them correctly? JvA May 28 '12 at 15:42

You should use \setbeamertemplate{frametitle} as you did for the headline : you have to remove
part of the code in your actual headline and put it in the frametitle . Claudio Fiandrino May 28 '12
at 15:46

Mmmhh yeah, that works, but doesn't give the result I want ... the frame title is supposed to be only in
the headline, not on the frame itself a second time. JvA May 28 '12 at 16:02

@JvA: it is just matter of defining in a proper way the vertical spacing. I think it is perfectly possible get
your desired result with this approach. Claudio Fiandrino May 28 '12 at 16:09

1 Answer

As said in the comments, the right way to proceed is to define separately the two
templates headline and frametitle .

Here is a possible implementation (as test image I used the logo of my university):

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
%=====================================================================
% Color definition

% Setzt Deep Harlequin (dunkler)


\definecolor{jvagreen}{RGB}{22, 89, 0}

% Setzt Vivid Gold (dunkler)


\definecolor{jvagold}{RGB}{231, 202, 0}

% Farbe der Elemente der headline


\setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{fg = jvagold, bg = jvagreen}

%=====================================================================
% Templates - headline, frametitle

\makeatletter
% Komprimiert die miniframe Kreise auf eine Linie
\beamer@compresstrue
\makeatother

% Definiert die headline


\setbeamertemplate{headline}
{
\includegraphics[width=0.15\paperwidth]{logopolito} % test logo
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.85\paperwidth,right]{section in head/foot}
\rule{0.85\paperwidth}{1pt}
%Vertikaler Abstand
\vskip10pt
%Fgt die Standard-Navi ein (miniframes)
\insertnavigation{0.85\paperwidth}
\vskip8pt
\rule{0.85\paperwidth}{0.5pt}
\vskip27.5pt % same height of the example provided, but IMHO is too much
\rule{0.85\paperwidth}{1pt}
\end{beamercolorbox}
}

% definition of the frametitle


\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}
{
\vskip-24pt % to shift up the frametitle
\hbox{
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.0675\textwidth]{} % left shift
\end{beamercolorbox}

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\begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=4pt]{section in head/foot}
\insertframetitle
\end{beamercolorbox}
}
}

\begin{document}
\section{Test 1}
\subsection{first}
\begin{frame}{A title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A second title}
hello
\end{frame}

\section{Test 2}
\subsection{first}
\begin{frame}{Another title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A second title}
hello
\end{frame}

\section{Test 3}
\subsection{first}
\begin{frame}{Last title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A second title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A third title}
hello
\end{frame}
\end{document}

The final result is:

edited Jul 13 '12 at 8:38 answered Jul 13 '12 at 8:30


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