I've just revisited this, and found a solution, so I'll post it here for the record.
(I tend to run the Desktop on headless Pis because the desktop is easier to use when a monitor _is_ attached, and I don't always know in advance if I'll be plugging a given SD-card into a Pi without a monitor.)
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