Beamer: frame number in split theme footline

Juli 12th, 2008 by Stefan Kottwitz

Yet again somebody in the mrunix forum asked for an advice how to put the frame number into the footline of his beamer presentation. He was using the “Warsaw” outer theme. The first solution

\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]

will just overwrite the “Warsaw” footline.

Possible solutions are: to use a different outer theme or to change the “Warsaw” footline. “Warsaw” uses the split outher theme, a workaround for insertion of the frame number should consider that and will be usable for other themes like “Copenhagen”, “Luebeck” and “Malmoe”. Inspection of the file beamerouterthemesplit.sty reveals that the footline uses the \insertshorttitle macro in its right part. So a quick workaround could be to redefine that macro:

\newcommand*\oldmacro{}%
\let\oldmacro\insertshorttitle%
\renewcommand*\insertshorttitle{%
  \oldmacro\hfill%
  \insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber}

If you want to see more details you could look at example source code and its pdf output.

This topic was discussed on mrunix.de and in the Matheplanet forum.

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13 responses about “Beamer: frame number in split theme footline”

Stefan Kottwitz said:
Oktober 27th, 2008 at 01:39

Here’s a modification using \expandafter like I’ve described in this blog post:

\expandafter\def\expandafter\insertshorttitle\expandafter{%
  \insertshorttitle\hfill%
  \insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber}

Ingo said:
Juni 24th, 2009 at 16:11
Thanks! Great solution!
Jeff said:
August 13th, 2009 at 07:02
Thank you so much, exactly what I was looking for!
Travis said:
November 15th, 2009 at 02:02
Thanks Stefan, the 12 July 2008 workaround helped me a lot.
Timotej Stanek said:
Januar 18th, 2011 at 14:30
thank you very much, this the most best solution
Sal said:
März 26th, 2011 at 20:31
Thanks a lot, it works perfectly!
David said:
März 31st, 2011 at 07:32
Fabulous ! Thanks.
anne said:
September 15th, 2011 at 09:19
Thank you very much… this solved a major problem I had…
Guillem said:
Oktober 13th, 2011 at 16:33
Awesome! thanks
Erick said:
November 8th, 2011 at 07:07
Pretty clean solution… Works like a charm!
Thank you so much.
BEAB said:
Dezember 15th, 2011 at 18:06
this one reall work, thanks
Tausen said:
Januar 23rd, 2012 at 11:35
Excellent - thanks!
abhijit said:
Mai 8th, 2012 at 13:07
Thank you… very much…
keep it up!!!!!!!!!!