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From: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Installer request: Remember state of final checkboxes between runs
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d569ffdd3e212072a52f0edd1053da81@mhoenicka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1frdkub.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

At 2017-01-13 16:46, Achim Gratz was heard to say:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> On 13/01/2017 16:14, Brian Mathis wrote:
>>> The installer should remember that this option was declined and
>>> default the checkbox to that state on the next run.
>>> 
>> 
>> there are some options available for this
>> 
>>  -N --no-startmenu                 Disable creation of start menu 
>> shortcut
>>  -d --no-desktop                   Disable creation of desktop 
>> shortcut
> 
> I would imagine that the OP just double clicks the installer icon, so 
> no
> options are in effect.
> 
> 

I would imagine that a little Windows knowledge suffices to add those 
options to the command represented by the icon.

regards,
Markus

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-13 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-13 15:14 Brian Mathis
2017-01-13 15:41 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-01-13 15:46   ` Achim Gratz
2017-01-13 15:51     ` Markus Hoenicka [this message]
2017-01-13 17:02       ` Brian Mathis
2017-01-13 22:06 ` Henry S. Thompson
2017-01-13 22:20   ` Brian Inglis
2017-01-13 22:27 ` cyg Simple
2017-01-13 22:39   ` Brian Inglis
2017-01-14  4:23   ` Brian Mathis
2017-01-15 13:59     ` cyg Simple

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