Trouble using gdk_atom_intern(..)

[Robin Verduijn <robin verduijn riversoft com>]

Hi all,

I am looking for a way to make all running gnome apps re-read the .gtkrc file
and update their appearance based on that. Sort of in the same way
theme-selector-capplet makes them realize the .gtkrc file has changed. I have
a script that changes my gtk theme once in a while and I need a way to notify
applications of these changes. The code I came up with was this:

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{
    GdkEventClient rcevent;

    rcevent.type = GDK_CLIENT_EVENT;
    rcevent.window = 0;
    rcevent.send_event = TRUE;
    rcevent.message_type = gdk_atom_intern("_GTK_READ_RCFILES", FALSE);
    rcevent.data_format = 8;
    gdk_event_send_clientmessage_toall((GdkEvent *) &rcevent);
    return 0;
}
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However, this breaks at line 5 (the gdk_atom_intern(..) call).
Does anyone know if, at least, I'm on the right path here and this code
_could_ possibly work? Or is there something else wrong with this approach?
Or if there's another way to make all gnome applications update their theme
info I'd like to know how.

If I sent this to the wrong list, I do apologize. But there didn't seem to be
a gnome-devel-list anywhere so I figured this must be the right one :)

Thanks in advance,
Robin