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| Date: | Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:12:11 -0400 |
| From: | Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> |
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On 6/29/2009 2:53 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Shortcuts created by postinstall scripts using mkshortcut --allusers > --smprograms aren't readable for ordinary users, so all they get to > see in the start menu is a white dummy icon that doesn't do anything. > This affects both MinTTY and rxvt, at least with Cygwin 1.7 on Windows > 7. I guess the scripts could find out where the start menu is and > apply the necessary rights themselves, but it would make sense and be > much more convenient if mkshortcut did that. Andy, if you'd like to roll this change into a forward-port of your other, wideAPI/locale patch, that'd be great. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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