Dual display notes LaTeX Beamer presentation

Pympress can present talk slides using Beamer in dual screen. Practice ahead of time with actual laptop.

Install the prereqs:

Install Pympress:

pip install pympress

Show the Beamer presentation in dual screen by running:

pympress talk.pdf

Tap the s key to swap screens.


In LaTeX .tex preamble (top of main .tex file), put this code to make dual-screen PDF work:

\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}