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What I'm trying to do:
Make screenshots of desktop and running program (Firefox Webdriver with Selenium, if it's important) in daemon (celeryd) in auto mode.
And I need desktop manager to be running, this is mandatory requirement. Currently I'm trying to use Fluxbox but I can switch to any other manager.

Current progress:
I can start X-server (Xvfb) in daemon and start Selenium Webdriver. Fluxbox start succeeds when I try to make it from terminal, but fails in daemon with following errors in log:
Can't create directory
Failed to load database:
Failed to load database:/init
Retrying with: /etc/X11/fluxbox/init

I tried to specify init-file directly, but Can't create directory error still exists and Fluxbox fails to start.
This might be daemon-mode restriction.

Question:
Is it possible to run any desktop manager inside daemon?
If yes, then how can I do this?

grumbler43
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  • There's no need to have a separate daemon. Your X-server should start whatever clients you need using `$(HOME)/.xsession`. or `$(HOME)/.xinitrc` (this includes the window manager). – n. m. could be an AI Jul 31 '13 at 20:50
  • I need several workers, that's why I start xvfb inside worker. I don't know if .xsession is applied to xvfb display started with selenium, I'll check this. – grumbler43 Aug 01 '13 at 05:23
  • What's the problem with starting several workers? – n. m. could be an AI Aug 01 '13 at 05:26
  • There is no problem, I just need separate displays for each worker, since I'm making screenshots of these displays. From my point of view I can't use one X-server for many displays. Correct me, if I'm wrong. – grumbler43 Aug 01 '13 at 07:42

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