Recently – I believe due to Texlive update – the background of the title text on my beamer presentation started to be of solid color compared to being fully transparent before.  MWE:  \documentclass[12pt,t]{beamer} \usepackage{graphicx} \usetheme{default} \title{Test}  \begin{document} \usebackgroundtemplate{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{test.jpg}} \frame[b]{\titlepage} \end{document}     How can I get rid of the white blocks so only the background image and text is visible?
Consider the following file:  \documentclass{beamer}  \setbeamercolor{title}{bg=red} \setbeamercolor{author}{bg=yellow} \setbeamercolor{date}{bg=} \setbeamercolor{institute}{fg=red,bg=green}  \title{TitelTitelTitel} \author{meiermueller} \institute{Institute} \date{lalala}  \begin{document}  \usebackgroundtemplate{\color{blue}\rule{20cm}{15cm}}    \begin{frame}    \titlepage  \end{frame} \end{document}   On one of my computers (using MiKTeX 2.9 and beamer 2015/01/05 3.36), the result is the following:    Note how, in particular, the date box has a transparent background  On my other computer, I installed a new MiKTeX version (2.9.6800), including beamer 2018/09/02 v3.52, and get this:    Here, the date field has a white background, and I cannot seem to get it to be transparent.   Apparently, the difference has some relation to the beamer version, or maybe some other change in the new MiKTeX version.  But what ist the reason, and how do I get transparent backgrounds?
Did J.R.R. Tolkien ever write a deeper connection between The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the ring? There seems to be a bit of a gap between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. While we know the outcomes from The Hobbit to Lord of the Rings, we don't know what happened between them. Did Tolkien ever novelize this?  Connecting the two movies together, I've pieced the following sub-plots:   Saruman becomes corrupted by peering into the Palantír of Orthanc at some point after The Hobbit Gollum gets captured by Sauron's army Legolas leaves his homeland, in search of a ranger of some importance Tauriel is banished from her homeland Bilbo returns to the Shire, and finally relinquishes the one ring on his 111th birthday to Frodo   What doesn't seemed joined by the books or the two trilogy films:   How did a powerful white wizard like Saruman become enchanted/corrupted by Sauron What was Gollum doing before he was captured Where was Thranduil during the events of Lord of the Rings What happened to Tauriel during Lord of the Rings What happened to the remaining company of dwarves after The Hobbit Who now resides within Erebor What happened to Radagast during Lord of the Rings Punctuation of a Direct Quote Is any particular punctuation necessary when a quotation is the subject of a sentence? For example, in the sentence below, should there be a comma after export? Or anything else?     "Laughter is America's most important export" is a well-known quote of Walt Disney's. ] inside an optional argument I accidentally discovered () that a closing square bracket within an optional argument delimited by [ ] can cause problems.  Here is example code illustrating the issue:  \documentclass{article}   \begin{document}  \tableofcontents  \section[Square brackets ([ and ])]{Square brackets: [ and ]} % bad: the TOC now has "Square brackets ([ and", and the actual title is a mere ")".  Some text.  \section[{Square brackets ([ and ])}]{Square brackets: [ and ]} % good (works as originally intended)  Some text.  \end{document}   The text to be used as the optional (as well as the non-optional) argument contains a ], and this character is not supposed to function as the optional argument terminator but as a matching square bracket/parenthesis. Perhaps this is as it should be, but the question is how to best circumvent any potential problems. Enclosing this in a group works, but I don't know whether doing this has other side effects (perhaps not here in the case of \section but hopefully someone else has a better example of where grouping could lead to a problem). There is no (obvious) way other than writing [{ }] because [ and ] are not normally escaped. That [ and ] are normal characters and bear syntactic function (as optional argument delimiters) creates this potentially problematic situation.  Is simply enclosing the entire optional argument in a group ({ }) a good solution? Are there other/better ways? Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? I get this error in Lubuntu 12.04 when I try to update in terminal:  $ apt-get update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? makefiles CFLAGS In the process of learning tinyos I have discovered that I am totally clueless about makefiles.  There are many optional compile time features that can be used by way of declaring preprocessor variables.  To use them you have to do things like:  CFLAGS="-DPACKET_LINK"        this enables a certain feature.  and    CFLAGS="-DPACKET_LINK" "-DLOW_POWER" enables two features.  Can someone dissect these lines for me and tell me whats going on? Not in terms of tinyos, but in terms of makefiles! What is the smallest (installed size) ubuntu based distribution? For ridiculously small hard drives (8GB), what Ubuntu Based (although not necessarily official) distribution offers the smallest installed size?  Let me clarify: I still want a certain amount of personal file space, preferably a few gig. I also don't have a problem with performance, while it is mediocre, a 2.6GHz single-core and 1GB of ram suffice to run ubuntu fine, but i find that it  uses 6-7GB of space. I am aiming for closer to 4GB. How do I counter-knife an enemy? When you press down the right stick to counter the attack, do you just press it, repeatedly press it, or press and hold? I've been knifed a few times from the front and each time I try to counter I fail. Also, if you believe you are about to be knifed and hold down the right stick until you are knifed, will that counter an attack, or do you have to press it down just at the right time? Push Notification Badge Count Not Updating Wheel going badly out of true on final tightening On two occasions (same wheel, loosened everything off and re-did the whole thing after the first time) as I've applied a final half turn to tighten the spokes round the wheel it's gone from being pretty laterally true (within about 0.5 mm) to badly out of true (probably a couple of mm or more out).  The simplest explanation would be that I've managed to mess up by missing spokes/over under-tightening some of them, but I'm fairly sure that's not the case.  What else could cause this?  This is a rear wheel with a fair amount of dish. I'm worried that I might be over-tightening. On both occasions I decided to do a final half turn as the non drive side seemed a little loose, but I was concerned the drive side might be over tight. Could this cause a sudden change in trueness?  I've got the wheel back to a reasonable state, but I'm no longer sure I have even tension in the spokes. How to prove two equivalence classes are disjoint? What would be the nicest proof of the following theorem:  If $\lim\limits_{n \rightarrow \infty} a_{n} = \infty$, then $\lim\limits_{n \rightarrow \infty} \left(1 + \frac{1}{a_{n}} \right) ^ {a_{n} } = e$. If $\lim\limits_{n \rightarrow \infty}b_{n} = 0$, then $\lim\limits_{n \rightarrow \infty} \left(1 + b_{n} \right) ^ {\frac {1} {b_{n}} } = e$.  I somehow failed to find a proof here on the website and in the literature. How do people understand astromech droids? Ambiguity of the word 'any'? How to select lines between two marker patterns which may occur multiple times with awk/sed What Did Lyanna Stark Say to Ned Stark? In the final episode of season 6 we see that Lyanna Stark is whispering something to Ned. What is she saying? Singularity in Newton's gravitational law Product of invertibles in $\Bbb Z_n$ [Wilson's Theorem generalization] How can we compute the product of all invertibles in $\Bbb Z_n$?  In the special case $n=p$ where $p$ is a prime it is Wilson's theorem. By pairing inverses it reduces to computing the product of all $a$ such that $a^2\equiv 1\pmod{n}.\,$  How can we do that? Programming pattern to generate VGA signal with micro-controller? How much does it cost to have a custom ASIC made? This problem comes from , who do not rigorously demonstrate (in their solution key) that the statistic is not sufficient.  Let $X_1,\dots,X_n$ be a random sample from a population with PDF $f(x|\theta)=\theta x^{\theta-1} \cdot 1_{\{x\in(0,1)\}}$ for $\theta&gt;0$. Show that $\sum_i X_i$ is not sufficient for $\theta$.  If you write out the PDF $p(\vec{x}|\theta)$ of the random sample, it is clear by the factorization theorem that $\prod_i X_i$ or $\sum_i \log(X_i)$ are sufficient for $\theta$; the PDF $p$ also suggests $\sum_i X_i$ is not sufficient for $\theta$. However, to rigorously demonstrate this, we need to analyze $p(\vec{x},\theta)/q(T(\vec{x},\theta)$, where $p$ is the distribution of sample $\vec{x}$, $q$ is the distribution of the statistic $T(\vec{X})=\sum_i X_i$. But finding the distribution of $T(X)=\sum_i X_i$ seems impractical. I have observed that $f$ is the PDF of a Beta($\theta$,1) distribution, but checking online, the distribution of the sum of Beta random variables doesn't appear to have a closed form. Are there any alternative routes (e.g., showing there is no factorization involving $T(\vec{X})$)? Did C&amp;B leave out a full explanation that $\sum_i X_i$ is not sufficient because none actually exist?