David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>     There are two problems here, I think.  One is that a desktop was saved
>>     while loading it was still in progress.
>>
>> It should be easy to prevent with an explicit test: don't save the
>> desktop when in the middle of reading one.  Could you write the code
>> to do that?
>
> I think maybe the following would do the trick:

I have added another change, since it looks like otherwise we might
get a timer leak.

I am checking in the following change then, all in all: