Making a custom mouse cursor in ubuntu 12.04

I have done some customization to my desktop but I am really stumped on trying to figure out how to make my own mouse cursor by taking a png and editing it and then making it an x11 file.

I have gotten all the files I need and made them all, in fact the cursor (its a star trek logo) shows up in the gnome tools advanced setting as star-trek-cursor, but when I go into the command line to use sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme, it does not show up in the list anywhere to set it.

I have tried making a .theme file where all the other X11 cursors are located, but no luck so I figured I would see if anyone else out there has had luck with this.

Solution 1:

This and this video tutorial might help you making cursor theme.

To change cursor theme, Go to software center and install Unity tweak tool. Open it, select cursors and select the cursor that you like.