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About XCurs

XCurs is a program for editing XCursor formatted XFree86 mouse cursors. This type of format became available as a result of Keith Packard's work on XFree86 v4.3.

What's So Importaint about xcursor?

xcursor contains a) Alpha Info, b) ~16 million colors c) animation of cursor, none of which were available in prior cursor incarnation (bitmap cursor format, which had transparency, but not colored one and only 2 colors which were not quite easily changeable.)

For more information:
You can go here for information on doing these cursors by hand.