diff --git a/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp b/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp
index dfa9adc..b1031b9 100644
--- a/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp
+++ b/MUNGA_L4/L4MFDVIEW.cpp
@@ -92,6 +92,46 @@ namespace
 	const int buttonDepth = 240;
 	const int indicatorStrip = 10;
 
+	//---------------------------------------------------------------
+	// Extra pixels of indicator strip, on top of the 10 above, so a
+	// FLASHING lamp is easier to notice on desktop glass - the pod's
+	// buttons were physical and backlit and never had that problem.
+	// Only the strip moves, so the button keeps its width and reaches
+	// the same distance behind the glass: this makes the lamp a
+	// LONGER bar, not a fatter face. The client size, the display
+	// offset and both banks all derive from strip_h/strip_w below, so
+	// the window grows to fit and nothing needs to know about it.
+	//
+	// DEFAULT 0 - Red Planet keeps the pod's geometry unless a player
+	// asks otherwise. (BattleTech 4.11 carries the same knob defaulted
+	// to 10, where the players asked for it; the two games are tuned
+	// separately on purpose.) Ported alongside RP412MFDLAYOUT, which
+	// took the same route from BT411's BT_GLASS_LAYOUT.
+	//---------------------------------------------------------------
+	const int defaultProtrude = 0;
+
+	int ProtrudeBonus()
+	{
+		static int bonus = -1;
+		if (bonus < 0)
+		{
+			const char *setting = getenv("RP412MFDPROTRUDE");
+			bonus = (setting != NULL && setting[0] != '\0')
+				? atoi(setting)			// a word parses to 0, i.e. off
+				: defaultProtrude;
+			if (bonus < 0)		bonus = 0;
+			if (bonus > 200)	bonus = 200;
+
+			if (bonus != 0)
+			{
+				DEBUG_STREAM << "MFDView: RP412MFDPROTRUDE=" << bonus
+					<< " (indicator strip " << indicatorStrip << " -> "
+					<< (indicatorStrip + bonus) << ")\n" << std::flush;
+			}
+		}
+		return bonus;
+	}
+
 	//---------------------------------------------------------------
 	// The map paints its own legend beside each side button, and that
 	// grid is not the naive height/6: measured off the 640-tall map,
@@ -649,7 +689,7 @@ void
 		// and the picture above/below it is the click target. Paint
 		// draws the buttons before the MFD image for that reason.
 		//-----------------------------------------------------------
-		int strip_h = indicatorStrip;
+		int strip_h = indicatorStrip + ProtrudeBonus();
 		int button_h = buttonDepth;
 
 		// on a scaled-down cockpit, keep the two banks from meeting
@@ -692,7 +732,7 @@ void
 		// indicatorStrip clearing the edge, so the lamp reads as a
 		// slim column and the map itself is the click target.
 		//-----------------------------------------------------------
-		int strip_w = indicatorStrip;
+		int strip_w = indicatorStrip + ProtrudeBonus();
 		int button_w = buttonDepth;
 
 		// keep the two columns from meeting behind a narrow map