GNOME startup, -before- desktop

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:39:17 -0400
Jud Craft wrote:

> Doing a simple script that does "umount" followed by "mount"
> accomplishes this nicely.  I just need to make the script run before
> Nautilus so it doesn't freak out if the XDG Desktop directory changes.

One of the places where scripts get run (maybe even gnome-session
gets run) is in the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ directory. In
fact I see a script in there named xdg-user-dirs.sh - I wonder
if there is already some mechanism in place for what you want
if only it was documented somewhere? :-).