Re: tools for cursor creation

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Paul> what should i be using to generate *both* the bitmap for a cursor
    Paul> and its mask ? bitmap(1) doesn't seem to offer a way to generate the
    Paul> mask. otoh, i never really understood any of this stuff.

Create the cursor using bitmap, make a copy with a different name and make it
into a mask.  This is the only way I know of at the moment.

The next version of xmbdfed (http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html) will
have some support for creating cursor fonts, which includes the shapes and
their masks.  It can already export glyph bitmaps in XBM form.  The next
version uses GTK+ instead of Motif.
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