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## Tcl/Tk Documentation > TkCmd > cursors

### Tcl/Tk Applications | Tcl Commands | Tk Commands | Tcl Library | Tk Library

### NAME

cursors - mouse cursors available in Tk

### DESCRIPTION

The -cursor widget option allows a Tk programmer to change the mouse cursor for a particular widget. The cursor names recognized by Tk on all platforms are:

    X_cursor
    arrow
    based_arrow_down
    based_arrow_up
    boat
    bogosity
    bottom_left_corner
    bottom_right_corner
    bottom_side
    bottom_tee
    box_spiral
    center_ptr
    circle
    clock
    coffee_mug
    cross
    cross_reverse
    crosshair
    diamond_cross
    dot
    dotbox
    double_arrow
    draft_large
    draft_small
    draped_box
    exchange
    fleur
    gobbler
    gumby
    hand1
    hand2
    heart
    icon
    iron_cross
    left_ptr
    left_side
    left_tee
    leftbutton
    ll_angle
    lr_angle
    man
    middlebutton
    mouse
    none
    pencil
    pirate
    plus
    question_arrow
    right_ptr
    right_side
    right_tee
    rightbutton
    rtl_logo
    sailboat
    sb_down_arrow
    sb_h_double_arrow
    sb_left_arrow
    sb_right_arrow
    sb_up_arrow
    sb_v_double_arrow
    shuttle
    sizing
    spider
    spraycan
    star
    target
    tcross
    top_left_arrow
    top_left_corner
    top_right_corner
    top_side
    top_tee
    trek
    ul_angle
    umbrella
    ur_angle
    watch
    xterm

The none cursor can be specified to eliminate the cursor.

### PORTABILITY ISSUES

Windows
  On Windows systems, the following cursors are mapped to native cursors:

      arrow
      center_ptr
      crosshair
      fleur
      ibeam
      icon
      none
      sb_h_double_arrow
      sb_v_double_arrow
      watch
      xterm

  And the following additional cursors are available:

      no
      starting
      size
      size_ne_sw
      size_ns
      size_nw_se
      size_we
      uparrow
      wait

Mac OS X
  On Mac OS X systems, the following cursors are mapped to native cursors:

      arrow
      cross
      crosshair
      ibeam
      none
      plus
      watch
      xterm

  And the following additional native cursors are available:

      copyarrow
      aliasarrow
      contextualmenuarrow
      text
      cross-hair
      closedhand
      openhand
      pointinghand
      resizeleft
      resizeright
      resizeleftright
      resizeup
      resizedown
      resizeupdown
      notallowed
      poof
      countinguphand
      countingdownhand
      countingupanddownhand
      spinning

### KEYWORDS

cursor, option
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