gdk-atom-intern (name &optional only-if-exists)

name -- a string with the atom name
only-if-exists -- if true, GDK is allowed to not create a new atom, but just return a null-pointer if the requested atom does not already exists. Currently, the flag is ignored, since checking the existance of an atom is as expensive as creating it.

The gdk-atom pointer corresponding to name.

Finds or creates an atom corresponding to a given string. The optional argument only-if-exists has the default value false.