Here is what is happening:
I startup the ol' computer, Choose Ubuntu, select my user, and change session to Fluxbox, enter password, press OK,BLACKSCREEN.

The reason I think this is happening:
My wi-fi wasn't working, Searched on the web and found this dandy little helper:
To be inserted in ~/.fluxbox/startfluxbox. Which I did right before the 'exec fluxbox' line, as it said that was the last thing to run.
The first time I tried it, I did it in terminal from an already active session (prior to adding it to flux/start), terminal ran it and my wi-fi worked great! However it never stopped running the command and returning to :$. So I think with it being BEFORE the exec flux, that it is stuck in a 'loop'. retrospectively this was not the smartest of moves, But as my signature says 'You know that thing you did? don't do that.' ... So now I know

What I have tried:
Editing the file from another distro [b]&/b] editing it from same distro, just using ubuntuclassic as my DM. But it is not showing startfluxbox just start (which isn't the same file at all NOR does it have the nm-applet line), even when I enable Show Hidden Files.


What I would like:
For anyone willing and able to give me a tip,trick,suggestion,idea,feedback, or anything on how to A.) Start Flux & B.) where to properly insert nm-applet at to keep my wi-fi going.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and thanks for any suggestions you can give.

Try backgrounding it

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started up as usual, and used CTRL+ALT+F1 to bring up terminal,
Entered , the output returned was
ALT+F7 to leave terminal, waited a few minutes - nothing happened.
$ sudo reboot
login - Nothing still

I use the ~/.fluxbox/apps file to start things when fluxbox starts. If I were in your shoes, I would remove the command from startfluxbox file and put the following into apps:

My guess is that things are goofed up because the way you've got it nm-applet is trying to start before fluxbox does, so it probably can't find an X screen to work with and crashes or does funky things.

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Try this:

And it should before the exec fluxbox line.

See the Fluxbox wiki for more.

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It is before the exec, I just didn't put the &. I'd give it a go but my resolution is all messed up, and xrandr is only picking up 640 X 480 ... So it'll have to wait. Sorry . I'll post when solved because I am about 98% sure this is the cause of my problem. Thank you all for your help.

The problem was the lack of the '&' symbol. It's all kosher now, thanks again everyone for the help in making flux work.

Congrats.

Thanks for the rest of the story.