How to disable the creation of shortcut icons on the desktop

You can disable the creation of desktop shortcut icons by making a modification to the JNLP file distributed by the AppGate server. Here is how to do it:

1. Connect to the AppGate Server using the management console.

2. Run a terminal.

3. Become root and change directory to /var/opt/appgate/webroot.local/webstart

4. agclient.jnlp is a symbolic link to ../webroot.ag/agclient.jnlp, we need to replace the link by a copy:

   rm agclient.jnlp
   cp ../webroot.ag/agclient.jnlp .

5. Edit agclient.jnlp (vi agclient.jnlp). Remove the <shortcut...> start and end tags and everything in between. Save.

The JNLP files usually don't change when the system is upgraded but after an upgrade it is a good idea to verify this.