-% Set the footline to contain the author and institute. Comes
-% from the miniframes theme.
-\beamer@theme@footline@authorinstitute
+% Stolen from the miniframes theme and modified.
+\setbeamertemplate{footline}{
+ \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{upper separation line foot}
+ \end{beamercolorbox}
+ \begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
+ leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{author/framecount in foot}%
+ \insertauthor%
+ \hfill%
+ \usebeamertemplate{page number in head/foot}%
+ \end{beamercolorbox}%
+ \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{lower separation line foot}
+ \end{beamercolorbox}
+}