Make Your X Windows Cursor a Stealie

Users of the X Windows System on Linux or other flavors of Unix can change their cursors to any graphic they please. The graphic has to be an "xbm" format. This page contains links to the two bitmaps that you need.

Load each file from this page and save as text

Remove the first and last lines of each file that contain the string "pre"

Finally, change the name of each file to the value shown on the link on this page.

To invoke the cursor under your X Window system, you can enter the command:

xsetroot -cursor x.xbm xm.xbm

Remember, this cursor setup will only work for the "root" window.

Get this file, edit, and change name to x.xbm
Get this file, edit, and change name to xm.xbm

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