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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:15:59 -0400
> 
> >  emacs --eval "(progn (progn (setq desktop-path (list (expand-file-name \"~/workspaces\"))) (desktop-save-mode 1)) (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> 
> desktop.el only automatically reads the desktop file if
> desktop-save-mode is enabled and only right after reading the init file.

So perhaps a better solution to the above would be to make some part
of .emacs conditional on some environment variable, and set that
variable in the script?