Actually, I don't think that this is based on your terminal of choice. It's based on your configuration file for bash, your shell. There's actually a few, /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc/, ~/.bash_profile, and ~/.bashrc. We'll concentrate on ~/.bashrc...
Depending on what window manager you use (KDE, Gnome, etc.) you may also have a configuration script for them, too, but we won't worry about them. If you edit your .bashrc, it will affect every window manager, and command line, for that user. All you have to do is add an alias line to your .bashrc...
An alias will do exactly what it sounds like. Make one command do something else. Basically, it makes it easy to do stuff, so you dont' have to do commands with 142 switches on them. The command you want to use is <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre>ls -aF --color[/code] which would be a pain to type every time you want to list a directory. So, to change the command, you can open a terminal and type <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><home/mikev/>#alias ls="ls -aF --color"[/code] which will fool the computer into thinking that the
ls command is really the other command with the switches.
To make this a permanent change, just add the alias line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file.
(By the way, the ~ means 'your home directory" so ~/.bashrc would be /home/yourname/.bashrc)
Let me know if this helps!
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