xdg-user-dirs doesn't work reliably with mount points

[David Burke]

In theory I should be able to set xdg-user-dirs DESKTOP=Documents/Desktop which happens to be how Windows stores it's desktop files. Then mount (I use pam_mount) Documents as a smb share. This works about half of the time, assumably a race condition between mounting the share and setting xgd user dirs. Half the time Desktop defaults to Home instead of where it was set to.

I've come up with a terrible work around on my blog. http://davidmburke.com/2012/05/10/settings-desktop-to-be-documentsdesktop/ The work around involves running xdg-user-dirs and restarting nautilus a few seconds after the user logs in.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xdg-user-dirs 0.14-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 10 17:06:16 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xdg-user-dirs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.user.dirs.defaults: 2012-05-10T15:43:31.187085