On 2/14/2019 6:45 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running an up-to-date Debian Stretch with the Xfce window manager. > > I had just installed the Orca Quantum Chemistry program and modified my > .bashc with an alias for orca. The next time I opened the xfce4-termiai
My answer assumes that you meant '~/.bashrc'. > as a user, the command line reads '(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ '!. > > If I do: > '(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ su > Password: > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# > Be carefull when not using 'su "--login"'. > Otherwise, the terminal seems to be working. > An alias shouldn't do anything unless it is called. In '~/.bash_aliases', the alias should have the form: alias n="<ALIAS-CMD>" HTH. -- John Doe