Spurious applications on startup

[Josh Holland]

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 15:22 -0400, Verde Denim wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Josh Holland
> <jshholland at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Firstly, I'd like to state a few things about myself. I live in
> Worcester, UK, am 16 years old, have been using Ubuntu for ?7 months
> and
> in that time have learnt both Python and C++. I am really impressed by
> everything, especially the way that it encourages the use of the CLI
> and
> programming languages.
> 
> There is just one minor problem which, while in no way fatal, does
> detract from the experience.
> 
> I set up a few programs to run on startup (such as a terminal, a
> little
> "reminder.py" script I wrote myself and Rhythmbox/Banshee) using
> System
> > Preferences > Sessions. But I decided to turn these off. But,
> whenever
> I turn on the computer (an 18-month-old Dell Inspiron 1300 with 512 MB
> RAM and 2.7 GHz ix86 processor) I get first my home folder opening,
> followed by Banshee, even though the file browser was never on my
> startup list, and I removed the Banshee entry. I appreciate all help
> given.
> Check Preferences ->Sessions ->Session Options. You probably have
> the  "Automatically remember applications" selected. De-select
> it, close everything you don't want to reappear on your next login,
> and restart gdm. That should fix it.
> 
> Jack
> 
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No, that hasn't solved it.