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On 15/08/2010 22:12, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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. This issue still seems to exist, and I couldn't find an actual patch to solve it, so attached is an attempt at fixing this.
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