Clickgen
The hassle-free cursor building toolbox.
clickgen is API for building X11 and Windows Cursors from .png files. clickgen is using anicursorgen and xcursorgen under the hood.
Install
using pip
pip3 install clickgenArchLinux
yay -S python-clickgenManjaro
pamac build python-clickgenCLI
clickgen -h
PyPi Dependencies
- Pillow/python-pillow
Build Dependencies
- gcc
External Libraries
- libxcursor-dev
- libx11-dev
- libpng-dev (<=1.6)
Install Dependencies
macOS
brew install --cask xquartz
brew install libpng gccDebain/ubuntu
sudo apt install libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libpng-devArchLinux/Manjaro
sudo pacman -S libx11 libxcursor libpngFedora/Fedora Silverblue/CentOS/RHEL
sudo dnf install libx11-devel libxcursor-devel libpng-develExamples
Check examples directory for building entire theme from .png files.
create a static XCursor
from pathlib import Path
from clickgen.builders import XCursor
from clickgen.core import CursorAlias
with CursorAlias.from_bitmap(png="all-scroll.png", hotspot=(5, 2)) as alias:
x_cfg = alias.create(sizes=[(22, 22),(24, 24)])
XCursor.create(alias_file=x_cfg, out_dir=Path("."))create an animated XCursor
from pathlib import Path
from clickgen.builders import XCursor
from clickgen.core import CursorAlias
with CursorAlias.from_bitmap(png=["all-scroll-01.png", "all-scroll-02.png"], hotspot=(5, 2)) as alias:
x_cfg = alias.create(sizes=[(22, 22),(24, 24)])
XCursor.create(alias_file=x_cfg, out_dir=Path("."))create a static Windows Cursor (.cur)
from pathlib import Path
from clickgen.builders import WindowsCursor
from clickgen.core import CursorAlias
with CursorAlias.from_bitmap(png="all-scroll.png", hotspot=(5, 2)) as alias:
win_cfg = alias.create(sizes=(24, 24))
WindowsCursor.create(alias_file=win_cfg, out_dir=Path("."))create an animated Windows Cursor (.ani)
from pathlib import Path
from clickgen.builders import WindowsCursor
from clickgen.core import CursorAlias
with CursorAlias.from_bitmap(png=["all-scroll-01.png", "all-scroll-02.png"], hotspot=(5, 2)) as alias:
win_cfg = alias.create(sizes=(24, 24))
WindowsCursor.create(alias_file=win_cfg, out_dir=Path("."))