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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:

1. Select cursor you want to save
2. Select File -> Export cursor images...
3. Select folder in which you want to save cursor images (there's a bunch of them)
4. done.

Download here.

Download xcurs

• version 0.5.1 here.
• version 0.5.0 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.

Screenshots

version 0.5.0 here.