Editing X BitMap (section)

==Support==

Some [[web browser]]s support displaying XBM images as a holdover from the early days of the [[World Wide Web]], when XBM was the minimal non-proprietary image file format. The [[Arena (web browser)|Arena]] web browser had full support since version 0.3.34 (25 July 1997).<ref>{{cite web |last=QingLong|first=Lu|date=1998-03-24|title=Arena change history|publisher=Yggdrasil Computing |url=http://www.yggdrasil.com/Products/Arena/release/CHANGES.html|access-date=2014-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030228182751/http://www.yggdrasil.com/Products/Arena/release/CHANGES.html|archive-date=2003-02-28 }}</ref> XBM support was removed from [[Internet Explorer 6]], [[Mozilla Firefox 3.6]],<ref>{{cite web|title=504822 &ndash; Remove XBM support from Mozilla|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504822|publisher=Mozilla|access-date=2014-10-22 |date=2010-07-12}}</ref> and [[WebKit]]-based browsers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bug 27823 &ndash; Remove XBM support |publisher=WebKit |url=https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27823 |access-date=2014-10-22|date=2010-01-12}}</ref> There is a strong indication that [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] (and therefore, also, [[Google Chrome]]) does not support XBM.<ref>{{cite web|title=Issue 372898: Chrome displays broken image icon when given direct link to XBM image |website=chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward |date=2014-06-26 |url=https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=372898 |access-date=2014-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221032447/https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=372898 |archive-date=2014-12-21}}</ref> Documentation for [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] 2.12 and 6.0 indicates that XBM was at least previously supported.<ref>{{cite web|title=Opera Software ASA - Opera version history|date=2013-02-05 |url=http://www.opera.com/docs/history/presto/#o2|access-date=2014-10-22|publisher=Opera Software}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Opera Software |title=Changelog for Opera 6.0 for Unix TP 1 |url=http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/600tp1/ |access-date=2014-10-22 |date=2001-11-26}}</ref>

Some image viewers/converters, e.g., [[XnView]], [[FFmpeg]] and [[IrfanView]], support XBM.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#Image-Formats|title=Image Formats|work=[[FFmpeg]] General Documentation|year=2014|access-date=2014-02-23}}</ref> A 48×48 XBM can be converted to ''Ikon'' and eventually [[X-Face]] with [[Netpbm]] tools.<ref>{{cite web|title=Online X-Face Converter|url=http://www.dairiki.org/xface/|author= Jeff Dairiki|access-date=2014-03-02}}</ref>

Despite having been superseded by the [[X PixMap|XPM]] format, XBM is still used by some modern but lightweight [[window manager]]s like [[Openbox]] to define simple button images in a window's title bar, such as the iconify/minimize, restore, and maximize buttons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Openbox Theme Documentation |url=http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes#Button_images |access-date=2014-10-08}}</ref> XBM is also used in embedded processing (microControllers) to display Icons used in GUIs.<ref>{{cite web|title=U8g2 library reference |url=https://github.com/olikraus/u8g2/wiki/u8g2reference#drawxbm|author= olikraus|website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2017-05-22}}</ref> [[ImageMagick]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Convert Images Between Formats via the Command Line in Ubuntu |author=Aseem Kishore |date=8 May 2010 |url=http://helpdeskgeek.com/linux-tips/convert-images-between-formats-via-the-command-line-in-ubuntu/ |access-date=2017-05-22}}</ref> supports converting images both to and from XBM. [[GIMP]] may be used to create or modify images using the XBM format, and also supports converting images to and from the XBM format.