terminal: configure scrollback compression

Idle compression was always enabled on supported renderer-backed
surfaces and the default logical scrollback limit remained sized for
fully resident history.

Add a default-on scrollback-compression option and make renderer
scheduling honor it across config reloads. Existing compressed pages
remain encoded when the option is disabled, while reenabling it starts a
fresh idle pass.

Raise the default logical scrollback limit from 10 MB to 50 MB and
document typical physical-memory savings, content-dependent behavior,
and retained virtual address usage.

src/config/Config.zig

@@ -1375,9 +1375,10 @@ input: RepeatableReadableIO = .{},
 ///
 /// Scrollback is stored in memory and allocated lazily up to this limit, so
 /// setting a very large limit does not immediately consume that amount of
-/// memory. On supported systems, Ghostty attempts to compress fully historical
-/// pages which are not currently visible while the terminal is idle. This can
-/// reduce physical memory usage, depending on the contents of the scrollback.
+/// memory. On supported systems with scrollback compression enabled, Ghostty
+/// attempts to compress fully historical pages which are not currently visible
+/// while the terminal is idle. This can reduce physical memory usage, depending
+/// on the contents of the scrollback.
 ///
 /// This limit always measures the uncompressed logical size of the terminal
 /// pages. Compression does not allow Ghostty to retain more history than the
@@ -1390,7 +1391,31 @@ input: RepeatableReadableIO = .{},
 /// This is a future planned feature.
 ///
 /// This can be changed at runtime but will only affect new terminal surfaces.
-@"scrollback-limit": usize = 10_000_000, // 10MB
+@"scrollback-limit": usize = 50_000_000, // 50MB
+
+/// Whether to compress scrollback pages while the terminal is idle.
+///
+/// Ghostty does its best to only compress when idle and decompress
+/// as needed. This means that compression doesn't lower IO throughput.
+/// We recommend you keep it on.
+///
+/// The scrollback limit remains an uncompressed logical limit regardless of
+/// this setting, so disabling compression can increase physical memory usage
+/// but does not change how much history is retained.
+///
+/// Text-heavy terminal history generally compresses to approximately 10% to
+/// 30% of its uncompressed page memory, corresponding to a 70% to 90% reduction
+/// in physical memory for pages which are compressed. Compression savings are
+/// content-dependent.
+///
+/// Note that the way Ghostty works is that we compress and discard the
+/// physical/resident memory but we retain virtual mappings. You will not
+/// see a decrease in virtual memory usage, but you will see a decrease
+/// in physical/memory usage.
+///
+/// Changing this at runtime affects future compression work. Pages which are
+/// already compressed remain compressed until their contents are accessed.
+@"scrollback-compression": bool = true,
 
 /// Control when the scrollbar is shown to scroll the scrollback buffer.
 ///