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[Jacob Nielsen <snobel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

On 2015-12-15 10:20, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
>
> On 14.12.2015 15:34, Jacob Nielsen wrote:
> > I've bought a nice case for my MX4. Unfortunately the plastic frame
> > inside it protrudes about 1 mm above the display, making it very hard to
> > swipe in from the long edges.
> >
> > Are there some settings I can change, so that a swipe is recognized even
> > if the gesture starts about 50 pixels in from the edge?
> Sadly, atm there aren't such settings. I agree there should be. Will see
> if I can add them any time soon.

Thanks - do you want me to file a feature request?

> For now, the best I could offer you is
> to make the root file system writable and edit the file
>
> /usr/share/unity8/Shell.qml
>
> On line 109 you will find
>
> property real edgeSize: units.gu(2)
>
> Increase that number in there.

I'll try that. The value is a number of pixels?

> But please be *very* careful when editing
> this file. If you make a mistake it might cause your device to not boot
> any more (so you'd have to reflash).

Thanks for the warning. Hopefully modifying the file will not interfere 
with the OTA updates? (I'm on rc-proposed.)

Regards,
Jacob Nielsen

> If you think this is too risky,
> wait for us to turn this into a setting.
>
> Br,
> Michael
>
> > Regards,
> > Jacob Nielsen