Is there any way to position the navigation buttons outside of the slides?

[hkichen]

So far, the only way I've been able to get to navigation icons to not lay on top of the slides is to add padding to the left and right of each slide. In doing so, I sacrifice a ton of real estate on the slide and have excessive negative space between slides.

Is there any way to make it so that the navigation sits outside the slides without putting in excessive padding?

Before padding:

After padding:

[MaximumRGB]

It is posiible.
Any element of your DOM can handle the click event as it is described in "Custom controllers" example https://baianat.github.io/hooper/examples.html#custom-controllers