Ubuntu 8.04 gnome session manager is very unreliable and unintuitive. You can hardly accomplish anything using the UI. It is amusing that while one can think of it as a helper program to help you restore your programs between system restarts it can also be used to kill programs currently running on your computer, unexpectedly. The author clearly had no idea of how UI should be designed in general, nor a plan for what he was trying to get accomplished with this program specifically. It is the single worst piece of software included with Ubuntu. Oh well one of these days I'll write a better one and get it included with Ubuntu.
However you can partially turn off this useless software by clicking "Automatically remember..." in the Session Options Tab and instead edit the file ~/.gnome2/sessions by hand.
E.g. I added this program to get started automatically with my X session:
16,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/gvim /home/dmitri/Documents/Status.txt /home/dmitri/Misc/GTD.txt
Unfortunately, this displays a strange error message in VIM. The error message only has an error icon and the path to the file. However after I click on it, all the files are opened just fine, except the second one is opened twice. Oh well, it's still 2008 I guess: it's 2009 that will be the year of the Linux desktop.
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