XCurs
This is editor for new, XFree86 4.3 / XOrg 6.7 style full-color cursors properties.
xcurs 0.5.0 available
OK. A warning first: do not save over your data, always use fresh directory.
Functional are following things:
- loading (from RGBA capable files)
- saving (no symlinked cursors will be saved) (into XCursor format)
- xhot/yhot/delay management
- removing of single image
- adding of single image
- python
- PyGtk2 (python2.2-gtk2 in debian)
- Image python module (python2.2-imaging in debian)
- read README -file.
Download here.
xcurs 0.5.1 available
Ok, it's been a year, but this ain't dead yet :)
Added function to save a cursor as a serie of PNG images. Use these steps to use it:
- Select cursor you want to save
- Select File -> Export cursor images...
- Select folder in which you want to save cursor images (there's a bunch of them)
- done.
Download here.
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.
