Linux: aliases when using `screen`

Question

I'm using screen, and I have several aliases in my ~/.bash_profile, for example python=python-2.6. But for some reasons these aliases don't work when I work in screen. How can I make them work?

Answer 1

.bash_profile gets run when in a login shell. You'll probably want to put your aliases in the .bashrc file. Or you could just execute your .bash_profile each time that you start up a shell in screen

Answer 2

Use the -l option to bash in your .screenrc to start your screen session's bash shells as login shells:

screen bash -l

Answer 3

If you run exec bash after you start up screen, they will work