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Could you try out #62? If the problem is that the file is created earlier in the session, that might help. Otherwise, I'm not sure. I'll also be looking into providing a non-home-manager alternative for user files, which could also solve the issue.

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Could you try out #62? If the problem is that the file is created earlier in the session, that might help. Otherwise, I'm not sure.

It seems that I was mistaken. I believe that the utility xdg-user-dirs-update is run if the user-dirs.dirs file doesn't exist or doesn't contain everything it should. Before xdg-user-dirs-update creates the new user-dirs.dirs file, it removes the symlink, for some reason (instead of just creating the template file). But if I manually create the file and populate it with the content of the template, it's kept at boot.

I'll also be looking into providing a non-home-manager alternative for user files, which could also solve the issue.

Interesting! Do you have any details?

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Interesting! Do you have any details?

Yes, the details are in #70 which is now merged. The usage is documented in the readme.

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