Editing X BitMap (section)

{{Short description|File format}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox file format
| name = X BitMap
| icon = 
| extension = <code>.xbm</code>
| screenshot = [[Image:Blarg.xbm.png|240px]]
| caption = A sample XBM file
| mime = image/x-xbitmap, image/x-xbm<ref name="iana">.xbm [[MIME]] type not [https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#image registered] at [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]]</ref>
| uniform type = public.xbitmap-image<ref>{{cite web |url=https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/UTIRef/Articles/System-DeclaredUniformTypeIdentifiers.html |title=System-Declared Uniform Type Identifiers |work=Uniform Type Identifiers Reference |publisher=[[Apple Inc]]}}</ref>
| owner = 
| genre = [[Image file formats]]
| url = 
| containerfor = 
| containedby = 
| extendedfrom = [[C (programming language)]]
| extendedto = [[X PixMap|X PixMap (XPM)]]
}}
In [[computer graphics]], the [[X Window System]] used '''X BitMap''' ('''XBM'''), a [[plain text]] [[binary image|binary]] [[image file format|image format]], for storing [[cursor (computers)|cursor]] and [[computer icon|icon]] [[bitmap]]s used in the X [[graphical user interface|GUI]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kinzler.com/picons/ftp/index.html|title=Picons Archive|author=Steve Kinzler|author-link=Steve Kinzler |year=2005|quote=picons are in either monochrome XBM format or color XPM and GIF formats|access-date=2014-01-06}}</ref> The XBM format is superseded by [[X PixMap|XPM]], which first appeared for [[X Window System|X11]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |author=Daniel Dardailler|others=Colas Nahaboo and Arnaud Le Hors |date=1996-07-15 |title=The XPM Story |url=http://www.w3.org/People/danield/xpm_story.html |access-date=2014-01-01 |archive-date=2014-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193652/http://www.w3.org/People/danield/xpm_story.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>