This document was written after discovering that no good documentation was available on how to create, edit and install mouse cursors under GNU/Linux. The information contained in this HOWTO are the steps I took to create and install a custom mouse cursor file on my system.
Copyright (c) 2000-2002 by Scott Brady
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You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before major installation and backups at regular intervals.
2002-05-04: Added information on DeCurs and uploaded version 1.1 of cursor file.
2000-12-10: First version of this document published.
In this version I have the pleasure of acknowledging:
Pasi Savolaine, pvsavola (at) cc.hut.fi