[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] Marlon90:
So, the nav-bar eating a portion of my screen was bothering me for a while and I wanted my device to rely on gestures only, so I decided to search for the most suitable way for me to solve this problem... LMT of course, but first I got rid of the nav-bar using FullScreen Toggle.

Big thanks to the creators of both those apps

LMT can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330150

FullScreen Toggle can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1497558

Now, as the title says, I'd like to share with you my LMT configuration. There are many things that I'm currently unable to understand about how LMT should actually be configurated, I just used a trial&error approach, but the result I got is more then decent and worthy of being shared IMO. If I'll get some suggestion on how to improve what I did I hope to turn this post in a clean LMT ISAS guide for the Nexus 4.

PLEASE NOTICE that I didn't want to use the pie and I (almost*) didn't use LMT's gestures. The following configuration is for

ISAS only

.

That's because I wanted to get rid of softkeys and still have an easy to use and reliable N4. Complicated gestures tend to be hard to use and to reproduce consistently, they will give you an hard learning curve and will slow down every operation. Here I'm trying to get the benefits of gestures without making everything overcomplicated.

Now... let's get into it, I'm gonna use pictures to make everything easier to understand

This is what I ideally wanted to get:

Each colored part corresponds to a ISA on LMT

YELLOW is ISA 1 (bottom left), assigned to BACK

RED is ISA 2 (bottom center), assigned to HOME

BLUE is ISA 3 (bottom right), assigned to RECENT APPS

GREEN is ISA 9 (left bottom), assigned to OPTIONS

ORANGE is ISA 6 (top right)

this is an optional one

that I wanted to add. It's assigned to search longpress, wich triggers an activity of the app "Screen Off and Lock". Basically it locks the screen with a swipe.

Sadly, if you assign the ISAS as shown without changing any value within LMT your ISAS will look nothing like the picture, you'd get something like this:

Why? I promise I don't know. I read the posts about how to use LMT, but I couldn't really understand how the 4 settings for ISAS work. So as I said, I went for trial&error. At first I thought that "Activation area thickness" was the setting I had to modify to get what I wanted, but it didn't help in any way, and the same happened with "Min bbox size", so I left those two as they were by default.

Then I found out that increasing the value for "Touchscreen to screen factor Y" reduces the colored rectangles areas. I found the value 209 to be ideal. The rectangles were now more like lines closed to the frame, but many things were still off. Here's how it looked like:

The home button is far too small, everithing is too much to the left and I don't really know what the heck orange is doing down there.

Finally, I changed the "Touchscreen to screen factor X" value to 250, and it got me to my final result

It's not perfect, but it's pretty close. I would like yellow red and blue to be better centered, but this configuration is really reliable and easy to use. It actually took me some time to realize that it's not exactly as I wanted it, the only thing that you have to remember if you you're gonna use this, is to stay well to the right when you want to swipe into recent apps.

If you apply this settings you will be able to use easy gestures that can't be activated by mistake while you are using other apps or games and you'll gain precious space on your screen.

My final LMT values are:

Min bbox size: 1 (default)

Activation area thickness: 80 (default)

Touchscreen to screen factor X: 250

Touchscreen to screen factor Y: 209

*I also enabled the X shaped gesture on LMT and associated it with FullScreen Toggle. If anything goes wrong while you are using your phone and you can't open the app drawer to get to FullScreen Toggle and enable the navbar, just perform the gesture, toggle the navbar back and reboot your phone.

Known issues with this configuration.

There are two of them.

First, since you have an ISA for options, you will be able to use the options in any app that has an option menu. The problem is that for some reason when FullScreen Toggle is activated you will not be able to see the 3-dots on-screen icon that opens the menu on any apps. That icon disappears from the top right corner or wherever it's supposed to be. That means that you will have to remember which apps have an option menu or just try to swipe and open it in case there is one.

Second, with LMT ISAS change positon properly when you go from portrait to panorama mode

only if you rotate your device 90° to the left

. If you rotate your device to the right ISAS from the bottom go to the top and ISAS on the right side go to the left side and viceversa.

However this is not a big problem to me and maybe it will be fixed by LMT's developer anyway.

Sorry for the long post and for any grammatical error (probably a lot). Hope someone finds this intresting and helpful :)