Ah, in that case this may just be a bug with my setup. $HOME/.config/autostart/ is likely read before any of those directories, and I have a copy of gnome-settings-daemon.desktop in there. Thanks for the information. I'll delete it and continue testing, but this bug is probably invalid.
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