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You can specify the mouse pointer style for particular text or
images using the pointer text property, and for images with the
:pointer and :map image properties. The values you can
use in these properties are text (or nil), arrow,
hand, vdrag, hdrag, modeline, and
hourglass. text stands for the usual mouse pointer
style used over text.
Over void parts of the window (parts that do not correspond to any
of the buffer contents), the mouse pointer usually uses the
arrow style, but you can specify a different style (one of
those above) by setting void-text-area-pointer.
This variable specifies the mouse pointer style for void text areas. These include the areas after the end of a line or below the last line in the buffer. The default is to use the
arrow(non-text) pointer style.
When using X, you can specify what the text pointer style
really looks like by setting the variable x-pointer-shape.
This variable specifies the pointer shape to use ordinarily in the Emacs frame, for the
textpointer style.
This variable specifies the pointer shape to use when the mouse is over mouse-sensitive text.
These variables affect newly created frames. They do not normally affect existing frames; however, if you set the mouse color of a frame, that also installs the current value of those two variables. See Font and Color Parameters.
The values you can use, to specify either of these pointer shapes, are defined in the file lisp/term/x-win.el. Use M-x apropos <RET> x-pointer <RET> to see a list of them.