Thank you for your bug report. I guess you are using a wayland session? The current script uses Xsession.d which doesn't work under wayland, it looks like fedora added an autostart .desktop to do the job (which they didn't upstream :-(), we should have a look at doing the same
** Changed in: xdg-user-dirs-gtk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: xdg-user-dirs-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Tags added: wayland -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710468 Title: XDG user directories are missing in Ubuntu 17.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs-gtk/+bug/1710468/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs