This issue also applies to version 17.10. In my case, I am using gnome
desktop and the path /etx/xdg/xdg-gnome-xorg gets prepended to
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS on every login.

Once the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS gets beyond a certain length, applications
such as slack-desktop fails with a segmentation violation on start up.

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Title:
  XDG_CONFIG_DIRS keeps getting expanded every login

Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Version: 18.04
  gnome-session-common Version: 3.28.1-0ubuntu1

  What's expected to happen: $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is the same on every login
  What happens instead: $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS gets expanded on every login

  It seems that $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS gets expanded by two entries on every
  login.

  On first login it looks like this:

  /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg

  On second login it gets expanded by the same two entries in front:

  /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
  /xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg

  On third login, two more entries get added:

  /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
  /xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg

  At this point Visual Studio Code, which lead me to this, no longer
  starts and just throw a Segmentation fault/Core Dump.

  I suspect this behaviour is triggered by
  /etc/profile.d/xdg_dirs_desktop_session.sh adding more stuff to
  $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS on every login.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: gnome-session-common 3.28.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-15.16-generic 4.15.15
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Apr 16 11:30:09 2018
  Dependencies:

  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-15 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Beta amd64 (20180404)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gnome-session
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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