From b2eadb0a893a6e4db3857e7042a3ad3b32b50992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Wootten <jeremywootten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:03:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Change default scrollback-lines

---
 data/io.elementary.terminal.gschema.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/io.elementary.terminal.gschema.xml b/data/io.elementary.terminal.gschema.xml
index 89085ab7db..9fc3f3c2e1 100644
--- a/data/io.elementary.terminal.gschema.xml
+++ b/data/io.elementary.terminal.gschema.xml
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@
 
   <schema path="/io/elementary/terminal/settings/" id="io.elementary.terminal.settings">
     <key name="scrollback-lines" type="i">
-      <default>-1</default>
+      <default>1000</default>
       <summary>Number of scrollback lines</summary>
-      <description>The number of scrollback lines of the terminal.</description>
+      <description>The number of scrollback lines of the terminal. Use -1 for unlimited scrollback (may impact performance)</description>
     </key>
     <key name="follow-last-tab" type="b">
       <default>false</default>