How to get rid of the headline in beamer

Question

How to remove the navigation of sections and subsections on the top of each slide generated from a beamer latex file?

By the way, in my preamble, I wrote:

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}

Infarct

Did you try switching the two lines? – Euphroe

Answer 1

I don't know whether this is what you want, but if you are talking about the navigation bar which has the symbols you can click on, this is the way to go:

\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty

Funny, that is the second time you ask this....

By the way, you might want to check this for a question/answer website focusing on LaTeX.

Matchmark

I put it immediately after \begin{document} and it works. – Tremml

Answer 2

The section navigation at the top of the frame is part of the headline. The easiest way to remove it is to change the headline template.

The line \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} is unrelated to the sections in the headline, this will remove the little symbols at the bottom right if the frame.

\documentclass{beamer}

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\useoutertheme{shadow}

\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}

\begin{document}

\section{title}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Pig

Answer 3

Beamer has different themes you can use, some of which include that navigation bar and some of which don't. The default theme, for example, doesn't include any navigation bar. All the themes available with Beamer are described in the user guide; just pick one that suits your requirements and use it:

\usetheme{default}

for example.

If you want to alter an existing theme to remove the navigation bar, you can try setting

\useoutertheme{default}

and see if that gives you a look you like. If not, you'll probably have to get into some theme-specific manipulations. The information needed to do this is in the user guide I linked to above.

Saturniid

David, I tried that, but the navigation bar is still there. The preamble I wrote is: \usepackage{beamerthemesplit} \setbeamercovered{transparent} \useoutertheme{default} \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} – Infarct

That's because you are trying to use three different outer themes. Only the last one, in your case shadow, will actually be in effect. You should remove \usepackage{beamerthemesplit} and \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} and only leave \useoutertheme{default}. (Also keep in mind that \usepackage is the wrong way to use a Beamer theme) – Saturniid

David, thanks for your answer, but I want to keep the shadow effect and the color of the background. By removing \usepackage{beamerthemesplit} and \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} and only leave \useoutertheme{default}, I don't have the shadow effect and the color of the background anymore, although the the navigation bar is removed. Do you have any other idea on this? – Infarct

For that kind of fine-grained modification, you can use the theme but you'll have to override an individual Beamer template. I took a look at the source files that define the shadow template, and I think you'll need to insert something like \setbeamertemplate{headline}{} after \useoutertheme{shadow} (and of course you should remove \useoutertheme{default}). But I'm not familiar with the process of modifying these templates, so you may need to examine the theme definitions yourself in connection with the Beamer user guide to figure out how to get the look you want. – Saturniid

Answer 4

The stupid way to make sure the presentation structure does not show up, (independent of theme) comment out the \section and \subsection commands.

Bremser