These mouse pointers are kind of a strange font file. And they live in the X11 fonts folder filed under 'misc' Just make a backup of the original to say cursor.pcf.gz.orig then copy over the one you want, renaming it to cursor.pcf.gz Restart X and you should see your new pointer. So far these are the cursors I have; qnx.cursor.pcf.gz - black with white outliine (QNX Photon) white.cursor.pcf.gz - white with black outline (downloaded) xorg.cursor.pcf.gz - black pointer from xorg dist on OpenBSD