GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 747316
Change default scrollback to more human-friendly value
Last modified: 2016-02-21 14:24:50 UTC
Current default is 8192 lines. There's no technical reason for this being a power of two. (Maybe a long time ago the whole scrollback was stored in the ring and then it was fortunate to have it a power of two?? But it's sure no longer relevant.) How about e.g. 10000 instead? Slightly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1439704
I don't see anything 'human' unfriendly about power-of-2's, but if you want to change it, do so.
Same goes for vte's built-in default (currently 512, could be 500 or 1000).
Changed to 10000 on master.