How to make cygwin shortcut stick to Windows 7 dock
- by Frank Krueger
I have recently installed cygwin on a Windows 7 beta machine. Everything works great, except one little annoyance:
The cygwin shortcut (Start-All Programs-cygwin-cygwin Bash Shell) cannot be pinned to the Start menu. My guess as to why is that I already have a "Console" window pinned to the start menu. My guess is that Windows sees that the two EXEs are the same and won't let me pin it.
This would be fine except I cannot pin the window to the Dock either. While cygwin is running, WIndows interprets it as just a Command Window and won't let me pin it either.
How do you pin the cygwin shortcut to the dock?