diff --git a/window/Cargo.toml b/window/Cargo.toml
index 369225d5d..2968b081b 100644
--- a/window/Cargo.toml
+++ b/window/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ shared_library = "0.1"
 filedescriptor = { version="0.7", path = "../filedescriptor" }
 x11 = {version ="2.18", features = ["xlib_xcb"]}
 xcb = {version="0.9", features=["shm", "xkb", "xlib_xcb"]}
-xcb-util = { features = [ "icccm", "ewmh", "keysyms", "shm"], version = "0.3" }
+xcb-util = { features = [ "cursor", "icccm", "ewmh", "keysyms", "shm"], version = "0.3" }
 xkbcommon = { version = "0.5", features = ["x11", "wayland"], git="https://github.com/wez/xkbcommon-rs.git", rev="01a0a0cd5663405e6e4abb1ad3add9add1496f58"}
 mio = "0.6"
 libc = "0.2"
diff --git a/window/src/os/x11/cursor.rs b/window/src/os/x11/cursor.rs
index 65801ed66..3491aaa3e 100644
--- a/window/src/os/x11/cursor.rs
+++ b/window/src/os/x11/cursor.rs
@@ -52,11 +52,12 @@ impl CursorInfo {
             None => {
                 let id_no = match cursor.unwrap_or(MouseCursor::Arrow) {
                     // `/usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h`
-                    MouseCursor::Arrow => 132,
-                    MouseCursor::Hand => 58,
-                    MouseCursor::Text => 152,
-                    MouseCursor::SizeUpDown => 116,
-                    MouseCursor::SizeLeftRight => 108,
+                    // <https://docs.rs/xcb-util/0.3.0/src/xcb_util/cursor.rs.html>
+                    MouseCursor::Arrow => xcb_util::cursor::TOP_LEFT_ARROW,
+                    MouseCursor::Hand => xcb_util::cursor::HAND1,
+                    MouseCursor::Text => xcb_util::cursor::XTERM,
+                    MouseCursor::SizeUpDown => xcb_util::cursor::SB_V_DOUBLE_ARROW,
+                    MouseCursor::SizeLeftRight => xcb_util::cursor::SB_H_DOUBLE_ARROW,
                 };
 
                 let cursor_id: xcb::ffi::xcb_cursor_t = conn.generate_id();