Document Classes ⇒ The footline in beamer

[M.A]

Hello Everybody!

I was writing a beamer presentation. I noticed that beamer reserves a place in the footline after the author (if it's not mentioned it puts empty braces!) as in the following image:

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I don't want to have the institution name in the footline, please tell me how to modify my code to red from it.

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\documentclass[serif,handout]{beamer}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}

\title{\bf The Title}
\author{The author}
\date{\today}
\usetheme{Boadilla}
\begin{document}

\frame{\titlepage}

\end{document}

[localghost]

A similar issue occurred recently [1]. The instructions should help you to configure the foot line.

[1] View topic: beamer footline


Best regards
Thorsten

[M.A]

Thank you! I copied beamerouterthemeinfolines.sty to my directory and I modified it according to my needs.

I will show the modification so that readers can benefit from this thread.
You just need to put the commenting symbol "%" before "~~(\insertshortinstitute)" as shown in the following code.

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\defbeamertemplate*{footline}{infolines theme}
{
  \leavevmode%
  \hbox{%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor%~~(\insertshortinstitute)
  \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%
}

Actually you can replace these commands "\insershort...." with whatever you want to write in the footline.

Regards,