diff --git a/services/wolf.sh b/services/wolf.sh
index 8007e79..ddbe7c5 100644
--- a/services/wolf.sh
+++ b/services/wolf.sh
@@ -1721,7 +1721,19 @@ CATALOG = {
         name='WolfDesktop', title='Desktop',
         icon='https://games-on-whales.github.io/wildlife/apps/desktop/assets/icon.png',
         image='ghcr.io/games-on-whales/desktop:edge',
-        mounts=[],
+        # Shares the SAME persistent home (.config/.local/share) and
+        # emulators/ -> ~/Applications mount as esde/retroarch below — a real
+        # XFCE multi-window session is a much more reliable place to run a
+        # standalone emulator's own GUI (Settings/Input dialogs) than inside
+        # ES-DE's single-app Sway kiosk session, where a second top-level
+        # window (e.g. Cemu's own Settings dialog) can fail to ever get
+        # mapped/focused. Whatever gets configured here (Cemu's settings.xml,
+        # controllerProfiles/, etc.) is read by the exact same app the next
+        # time it's launched through ES-DE, since it's the same mounted home.
+        mounts=[f'{games}/retro-home:/home/retro/.config:rw',
+                f'{games}/retro-home-data:/home/retro/.local/share:rw',
+                f'{games}/emulators:/mnt/games/emulators:rw',
+                f'{games}/emulators:/home/retro/Applications:rw'],
         env=STD_ENV, cap_add=STD_CAP, security_opt=[], ipc_mode='host',
         ulimits=[], privileged=False,
     ),
@@ -3124,7 +3136,19 @@ CATALOG = {
         name='WolfDesktop', title='Desktop',
         icon='https://games-on-whales.github.io/wildlife/apps/desktop/assets/icon.png',
         image='ghcr.io/games-on-whales/desktop:edge',
-        mounts=[],
+        # Shares the SAME persistent home (.config/.local/share) and
+        # emulators/ -> ~/Applications mount as esde/retroarch below — a real
+        # XFCE multi-window session is a much more reliable place to run a
+        # standalone emulator's own GUI (Settings/Input dialogs) than inside
+        # ES-DE's single-app Sway kiosk session, where a second top-level
+        # window (e.g. Cemu's own Settings dialog) can fail to ever get
+        # mapped/focused. Whatever gets configured here (Cemu's settings.xml,
+        # controllerProfiles/, etc.) is read by the exact same app the next
+        # time it's launched through ES-DE, since it's the same mounted home.
+        mounts=[f'{games}/retro-home:/home/retro/.config:rw',
+                f'{games}/retro-home-data:/home/retro/.local/share:rw',
+                f'{games}/emulators:/mnt/games/emulators:rw',
+                f'{games}/emulators:/home/retro/Applications:rw'],
         env=STD_ENV, cap_add=STD_CAP, security_opt=[], ipc_mode='host',
         ulimits=[], privileged=False,
     ),