Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Are you sure that it did? Have you tried using a pointer with many different colours? recycle.xpm has three colours (plus mask); black plus two shades of green (chartreuse1 and chartreuse4). On an 8bpp PseudoColor display, I suspect that you get black plus one of the shades of green. rgb.txt contains: 0 0 0 black 127 255 0 chartreuse1 69 139 0 chartreuse4 On a DirectColor or TrueColor display, with the blue component in the least significant bits (which is the case for me), then all of the pixel values will be even. According to the comment in glyphs-x.c, this will result in the image being a single colour (which appears to be chartreuse4). XEmacs could do it better, although it would have to perform the colour to mono conversion itself. Currently it uses XpmCreatePixmapFromBuffer to convert the Xpm into a 1bpp Pixmap by taking only the bottom bit from each pixel. Basically, the Xpm format isn't suitable for cursors; it's better to use a pair of XBMs instead, e.g. (set-glyph-image gc-pointer-glyph (vector 'xbm :file "recycle-image.xbm" :mask-file "recycle-mask.xbm" :foreground "black" :background "chartreuse1")) where recycle-{image,mask}.xbm are the attached files. -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt;