R: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

[Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>]

--- Mar 24/8/10, Jim Reisert AD1C ha scritto:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm running Cygwin Setup 2.712 on a Windows XP SP3
> machine.
> 
> When I get to the end of setup, I uncheck the "Create icon
> on Desktop" box.
> 
> The next time I run Cygwin Setup, that box is checked
> again.? This
> makes it difficult to use my desktop setup icon that has
> the -M
> parameter, because I always have to "clean up" afterward by
> removing
> the Cygwin icon from my desktop and Start folder.
> 
> Is this a bug?? I noticed that there's no SETUP.INI
> file in the Cygwin
> directory anymore, but there is an etc/setup/setup.rc file
> instead.
> 
> Thanks - Jim
> 
see "setup --help"


 -n --no-shortcuts     Disable creation of desktop and start
                       menu shortcuts

Marco






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