[SOLVED] How to define bash aliases?

[Atip]

I have my aliases always in .bashrc and no problems that way.
like:
alias ll='ls -l'

[toothandnail]

I found, however, that this don't work if the XFCE Terminal is set to run as a login shell. Does anybody know how to make bash_aliases to work in this case?

Edit: I need the option "Run command as login shell" because it enables colored output defined in ~/.dir_colors. If this can be accomplished without running the terminal as login shell, I would greatly appreciate hints in that direction.

Create a ~/.bash_profile which sources ~/.bashrc (which in turn will source ~/.bash_aliases). .bash_profile is executed (if it exists) when a login terminal is started.

Paul.

[JRD]

I always symlink .bashrc to .bash_profile.

[john256]

Thank you all for the suggestions!