.XBM File

The xbm file extension is associated with the X Windows system bitmap image format.

In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap (XBM), an ASCII text monochrome image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI.

The xbm files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C language source files. This means that they can be compiled directly into an application without any preprocessing steps, but it also makes them far larger than their raw pixel data would be (each byte of image data takes 6 bytes in a XBM file).

MIME types:
image/xbm
image/x-xbm
image/x-xbitmap

Teh xbm file extension is related to the X Windows system bitmap image format an ASCII text monochrome image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI.

How to open:

Use compatible tools to work with *.xbm files.

How to convert:

Use OpenOffice.org Draw to convert *.xbm file in another format.