Window-System Types - SXEmacs Lisp Reference Manual

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8.6 Window-System Types

SXEmacs also has some types that represent objects such as faces (collections of display characters), fonts, and pixmaps that are commonly found in windowing systems.

Face Type: A collection of display characteristics.
Glyph Type: An image appearing in a buffer or elsewhere.
Specifier Type: A way of controlling display characteristics on a per-buffer, -frame, -window, or -device level.
Font Instance Type: The way a font appears on a particular device.
Color Instance Type: The way a color appears on a particular device.
Image Instance Type: The way an image appears on a particular device.
Toolbar Button Type: An object representing a button in a toolbar.
Subwindow Type: An externally-controlled window-system window appearing in a buffer.
X Resource Type: A miscellaneous X resource, if Epoch support was compiled into SXEmacs.