• Desktop User Guide
• Desktop Sessions

You can choose for certain programs to be started automatically when you log in to a session. For example, you might want a web browser to be started as soon as you log in. Programs which start automatically when you log in are called startup programs. Startup programs are automatically saved and safely closed by the session manager when you log out, and are restarted when you log in.

The Sessions preference tool allows you to define which programs are started automatically when you log in. It has two tabs, the Startup Programs tab and the Options tab.