said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users:
| JPG has no transparency, PNG has :)
Oops. I got it backwards.
| For creating the xcursor from pngs you have an utuility "xcursorgen" in
| "x11-apps" - thta' where you define the hotspot, too. The whole workflow
| is like this:
|
| xcursor file -> xcur2png -> png(s) + config file -> xcursorgen ->
| xcursor file
Do the X11-apps have, oh, I don't know, an X-11 front-end? I see that I
have them installed, but the man pages are a little bit opaque.
| You could use GIMP to load the xcursor file, but IMO you cannot save it
| - which is kind of bad. Ther was an old plugin that could do it, but it
| only work on gimp < 2.7.
Ah. Like KOffice in the early days. The word processor would load anything
but would save only to its own format that was read by absolutely nothing
else. And the boys couldn't see how this was the slightest problem. The
philosophy seemed to be victory or death. GIMP has deprecated many useful
things over the years. Seems its plugin API hasn't been settled.
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