XCurs is a program used 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 Important 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.)
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Here are some key features of "xcurs":
· 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
Requirements:
· python
· PyGtk2 (python2.2-gtk2 in debian)
· Image python module (python2.2-imaging in debian)
· read README -file.