Session management is a way to restore your Gimp session that was running before you logged out. I.e leave Gimp running logout, and then login. Gimp will now along with the Window Manager try to restore the Gimp session you that was running before you logged out. You can disable/enable this feature with the "Always Try to Restore Session" check button. Remember your desktop environment must support session management otherwise this will not work. NOTE: If you start Gimp from e.g a script to set special environment variables before Gimp is started, then it's not wise too use this option.

Gimp can save it's window positions i.e where e.g the gradient select dialog is displayed on your display. If you use the Save Window Position at Exit option then Gimp will save the position of e.g the brush dialog (if it is opened). It can be useful to arrange your Gimp desktop with this option enabled and then restart Gimp and disable the option. You will there by have a consistent desktop each time you start Gimp.

If you have a tablet and use it with Gimp you will have several devices that you can preconfigure in the toolbox|File|Dialogs|Device Status. However if you use Save Device Status on Exit option then the preconfiguration will be over written and the last state before exit will be the new configuration.

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