.CURSOR File Extension

KDE Plasma Custom Cursor Specification

Developer: KDE

What is a .cursor file?

KDE Plasma is a graphical workspace environment available for various platforms. Most often, KDE Plasma is used alongside Linux systems, to provide a GUI for those operating systems.

Optionally, KDE Plasma users can create and use custom cursors, which replace the desktop environment's default cursors. To create these cursors, users must first define them in one or more CURSOR files. Each CURSOR file contains:

KDE Plasma users can then use the xcursorgen command and their CURSOR files to generate actual custom cursors. After creating a set of custom cursors, users typically store them all in a single cursors sub-directory, within a custom cursor theme directory.

How to open .cursor files

To open a .cursor file, you need compatible software that supports this file format.

Quick Facts

File Extension
.cursor
Developer
KDE
File Type
KDE Plasma Custom Cursor Specification
Last Updated
2025-08-09

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