[ILUG] How to create custom X mouse cursor

[Nick Murtagh]

On Monday 26 November 2001 10:40, you wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:29:01AM -0000, Vijay Gill mentioned:
> >     Is there any way of creating your own X windows mouse cursor?
> > Regards
>
>  You can. It is made from two separate images, a "bitmap" of what is
> shown, and what is not, and another bitmap of what is black, and what is
> white.
>
>  I'm not aware of any programs that can do this for you. You would have to
> use the XLib calls themselves, and write your own C code to do it. Have a
> look at;

what about

man bitmap

?