Bibata Cursor

TLDR; This cursor set is the masterpiece of cursors available on the internet, Hand designed by Kaiz Khatri.

Bibata is open source, compact, and material designed cursor set. This project masterelop for improve cursor experience.

Bibata is one of the most popular cursors set in the Linux community so far and is now available for freely with multiple colors and size options for Windows as well. The aim of this project is to provide the personalized cursors to users.

Note

All cursor's .svg files are found in svg directory or you can also find them on Figma.

Variants:

• Bibata Original Amber: Yellowish and rounded edge bibata cursors.
• Bibata Modern Amber: Yellowish and sharp edge bibata cursors.
• Bibata Original Classic: Black and sharp edge bibata cursors.
• Bibata Modern Classic: Black and rounded edge bibata cursors.
• Bibata Original Ice: White and sharp edge bibata cursors.
• Bibata Modern Ice: White and rounded edge bibata cursors

Cursor Sizes

Xcursor Sizes:

22 24 28 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96

Windows Cursor Size:

• 16x16 - Small
• 24x24 - Regular
• 32x32 - Large
• 48x48 - Extra Large

Colors:

Bibata Amber

• Base Color - #FF8300 (Amber)
• Outline Color - #FFFFFF (White)
• Watch Background Color - #001524 (Rich Black)

Bibata Classic

• Base Color - #000000 (Black)
• Outline Color - #FFFFFF (White)
• Watch Background Color - #000000 (Black)

Bibata Ice

• Base Color - #FFFFFF (White)
• Outline Color - #000000 (Black)
• Watch Background Color - #FFFFFF (White)

How to get it

Easiest Way

You can download latest stable & development releases from Release Page.

Packages

Note

If you're having trouble with the packages please submit a request to the package maintainer before creating an issue.

Arch Linux/Manjaro

Arch Linux/Manjaro users can install from the AUR currently maintained by @Shatur & @yochananmarqos. Can be installed via Pamac (preinstalled in Manjaro), Paru or any other AUR helper.

paru -S bibata-cursor-theme

Alternatively, Bibata binaries can be also installed using the PKGBUILD bibata-theme-bin, available on the AUR.

Fedora

copr-repo by @peterwu (recommended)

sudo dnf copr enable peterwu/rendezvous
sudo dnf install bibata-cursor-themes

copr-repo by @muhalantabli

sudo dnf copr enable muhalantabli/copr-repo
sudo dnf install bibata-cursor-theme

Installing Bibata Cursor

Linux/X11

Installation:

tar -xvf Bibata.tar.gz                # extract `Bibata.tar.gz`
mv Bibata-* ~/.icons/                 # Install to local users
sudo mv Bibata-* /usr/share/icons/    # Install to all users

Uninstallation:

rm ~/.icons/Bibata-*                  # Remove from local users
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/Bibata-*     # Remove from all users

Windows

Installation:

1. Unzip .zip file
2. Open unziped directory in Explorer, and right click on install.inf.
3. Click 'Install' from the context menu, and authorize the modifications to your system.
4. Open Control Panel > Personalization and Appearance > Change mouse pointers, and select Bibata Cursors.
5. Click 'Apply'.

Uninstallation:

Run the uninstall.bat script packed with the .zip archive

OR follow these steps:

1. Go to Registry Editor by typing the same in the start search box.
2. Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder and expand Control Panel folder.
3. Go to Cursors folder and click on Schemes folder - all the available custom cursors that are installed will be listed here.
4. Right Click on the name of cursor file you want to uninstall; for eg.: Bibata Cursors and click Delete.
5. Click 'yes' when prompted.

Build From Source

Notes

• Bibata build configuration and cursor hotspot settings are bundled in the build.toml file.
• Check out the scripts section in package.json to see how we build the cursor theme, excluding the render scripts. They are useful for converting .svg files to .png files.
• yarn is optional, For building XCursors and Windows cursors from .png files or resizing them you don't need that. If you want to develop/modify Bibata's colors, and bitmaps, or generate a png file from a svg, Then you can use yarn because bitmapper is written in TypeScript.
• Since Bibata Modern and Bibata Original are designed similarly, they share the same hotspot settings so a single configuration file build.toml is responsible for building all variants. Due to this, you will have to change the following options in ctgen to build the appropriate variant:
  • -d: bitmaps directory
  • -n: The name you want to give to the generated theme.
  • -c: Theme comment.
  • See ctgen --help for all available options.

Build prerequisites

• Python version 3.7 or higher
• clickgen>=2.1.1 (pip install clickgen)
• yarn

Quick start

1. Install build prerequisites on your system
2. git clone https://github.com/ful1e5/Bibata_Cursor
3. cd Bibata_Cursor && yarn build
4. See Installing Bibata Cursor.

Building

Note

Bitmaps are already generated in the bitmaps directory and managed by the maintainer (do not edit them directly).

First make sure you installed the build prerequisites. Now that you have the dependencies, you can try build individual themes from bitmaps and customize sizes, target platform, and etc. with the ctgen CLI (packed with clickgen).

yarn build aberration

Here are the default commands we used to build the Bibata's variants and packed them into yarn build:

ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Amber' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Amber' -c 'Yellowish and rounded edge bibata cursors.'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Classic' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Classic' -c 'Black and rounded edge Bibata cursors.'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Ice' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Ice' -c 'White and rounded edge Bibata cursors.'

ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Original-Amber' -n 'Bibata-Original-Amber' -c 'Yellowish and sharp edge Bibata cursors.'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Original-Classic' -n 'Bibata-Original-Classic' -c 'Black and sharp edge Bibata cursors.'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Original-Ice' -n 'Bibata-Original-Ice' -c 'White and sharp edge Bibata cursors.'

Afterwards, the themes can be found in the themes directory.

Customize Sizes

Note

You can change the cursor size up to 200 because pngs are rendered with 200x200. If the cursor is resized by more than rendered png size, the final cursor will be blurred.

Customize Windows Cursor size

To build Windows cursor with size 16:

Warning

Windows cursor supports only one size, if multiple sizes are given with -s the first size will be considered in build.

ctgen build.toml -s 16 -p windows -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Ice' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Ice' -c 'White and rounded egde bibata cusors with size 16'

You can also customize output directory with -o option:

ctgen build.toml -s 16 -p windows -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Ice' -o 'out' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Ice' -c 'White and rounded egde Bibata cursors with size 16'

Customize XCursor size

To build XCursor with size 16:

ctgen build.toml -s 16 -p x11 -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Ice' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Ice' -c 'White and rounded egde Bibata cursors with size 16'

You can also assign multiple sizes to ctgen for XCursors build:

ctgen build.toml -s 16 24 32 -p x11 -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Modern-Ice' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Ice' -c 'Custom white and rounded egde Bibata cursors'

Customize Colors

To customize bibata's color you have to compile the bibata-bitmapper with yarn compile command. After compiling bibata-bitmapper form source code you can customize the colors via cli.js node script, Which you will find in the dist directory.

cli.js Help

Usage: bibata-bitmapper [OPTIONS]...

Options:
  -V, --version                      output the version number
  -d, --dir <path>                   Specifies the directory for placement of SVG files.
  -o, --out <path>                   Specifies the output directory. (default './bitmaps')
  -n, --themeName <string>           Specifies the name of output directory.
  -bc, --baseColor <hex>             Specifies the Hexadecimal color for inner part of cursor.
  -oc, --outlineColor <hex>          Specifies the Hexadecimal color for cursor's ouline.
  -wc, --watchBackgroundColor <hex>  Specifies the Hexadecimal color for animation background.
  -h, --help                         display help for command

yarn render aberration

Here are the default commands we used for generating the Bibata's bitmaps and packed them into yarn render:

node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/modern' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Amber' -bc '#FF8300' -oc '#FFFFFF' -wc '#001524'
node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/modern' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Classic' -bc '#000000' -oc '#FFFFFF'
node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/modern' -n 'Bibata-Modern-Ice' -bc '#FFFFFF' -oc '#000000'
node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Original-Amber' -bc '#FF8300' -oc '#FFFFFF' -wc '#001524'
node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Original-Classic' -bc '#000000' -oc '#FFFFFF'
node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Original-Ice' -bc '#FFFFFF' -oc '#000000'

Examples

Lets generate modern Bibata with green base color and black outline:

node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/modern' -n 'Bibata-Hacker' -bc '#00FE00' -oc '#000000' -wc '#001524'

After rendering custom color you have to build cursor through ctgen:

ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Hacker' -n 'Bibata-Hacker' -c 'Green and black Bibata cursors.'

Afterwards, Generated theme can be found in the themes directory.

Bibata Gruvbox

node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Gruvbox' -bc '#282828' -oc '#EBDBB2' -wc '#000000'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Gruvbox' -n 'Bibata-Gruvbox' -c 'Groovy Bibata cursors.'

Bibata Solarized Dark

node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Solarized-Dark' -bc '#002b36' -oc '#839496' -wc '#000000'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Solarized-Dark' -n 'Bibata-Solarized-Dark' -c 'Solarized Dark Bibata cursors.'

Bibata Solarized Light

node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Solarized-Light' -bc '#839496' -oc '#002b36'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Solarized-Light' -n 'Bibata-Solarized-Light' -c 'Solarized Light Bibata cursors.'

Bibata Dracula

node dist/cli.js -d 'svg/original' -n 'Bibata-Dracula' -bc '#282a36' -oc '#f8f8f2'
ctgen build.toml -d 'bitmaps/Bibata-Dracula' -n 'Bibata-Dracula' -c 'Dracula Bibata cursors.'

Consider Sponsoring my work

Until now my cursors projects were funded by pling.com but since the pling-factor on the website has decreased and monthly payments are <500$, It is now dependent on community funding and sponsorships. If you want to help me to maintain Bibata and my other open source projects actively, consider sponsoring my work on GitHub Sponsor or DM me on Twitter if your company would like to support this project, I will gladly look into it and post your avatar in the README.

I appreciate all the wonderful people who patronize and sponsoring my work.

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Credit

Wedge Loading Animation · Adwaita · Dmz · Yaru