diff --git a/emacs/init.org b/emacs/init.org
index 75be74a..3a1f712 100644
--- a/emacs/init.org
+++ b/emacs/init.org
@@ -1419,6 +1419,15 @@
 
 * Desktop                                                    :desktop:
 
+  Always load desktops. The way I close them doesn't seem to delete
+  the ~.emacs.desktop.lock~ files, and I don't usually run more than one
+  Emacs instance and thus usually don't need the locked files anyway,
+  so try to ignore them.
+
+  #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+    (setq desktop-load-locked-desktop t)
+  #+END_SRC
+
 ** Don't close some more buffers
 
    Add some regular expressions to the "don't kill" list of the ~desktop~