Joe:
> Of course, an alias only works for actual CLI.
Au contraire! Any environment variables you set within a command-line-box
(xterm, kterm, ...) should persist until the window is closed, but there are
other ways to beat the GUI into submission.
If your login takes you straight into a GUI, write the 'alias' command to your
'$HOME/.bashrc' (also an opportunity to reaffirm other variables the GUI seems
to loose).
As well as (or instead of) alias mc='mc -d', you might also consider adding
these to your '.bashrc':
export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
but especially,
alias mc='. /usr/bin/mc-wrapper.sh -d'
You may find 'mc-wrapper' in '/usr/share/mc/bin/', or perhaps '/usr/libexec'
depending on your distribution.
Paul
... on an island, somewhere in the Pacific ...
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