When logging in directly to an application, will the transmission-daemon run in the background?

I have a media computer running Ubuntu 12.04 and XBMC. I also have flexget and transmission-deamon set up to run automatically every hour with a line in my crontab.

@hourly /usr/local/bin/flexget --cron

Question is, I open XBMC on this machine by selecting 'XBMC' instead of 'Ubuntu' at the log in screen. Will my flexget and the transmission-daemon still run in the background?