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Considering xubuntu 13.04 (based on xfce4.10 distribution), How to set Unlimited scrollback for xfce4-terminal?
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To configure Terminal, choose Edit → Preferences... or right-click the terminal area of the window and choose Preferences.... This will bring up the Terminal Preferences dialog, which allows you to adjust Terminal's behaviour to your needs.
If you're not interested in using the default terminal app in XFCE, here's how to change it. First, find the “Utilities” section of “Preferred Applications.” Then, locate “Terminal Emulator” and click on the drop-down menu underneath it to swap to a different terminal app.
xubuntu 13.04 (based on xfce4.10 distribution) did not yet support unlimited scrolling for xfce4-terminal, How ever, in xfce4-terminal -> edit -> preferences -> Scrollback can be set to max value of 1048576.
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Just to clarify AvindraGoolcharan's comment, in newer versions of the xfce4-terminal, unlimited scrollback is possible. For versions 0.8.0 and above, there is a built in option to enable it.
Unfortunately, all versions of xfce4-terminal >= 0.8.0 require some version of gtk-3.0 (at a minimum, version 3.14), which is not available for 13.04. vte-2.91 is also required, which again is not available for 13.04.
For those who do have a version of xfce4-terminal that's 0.8.0 or newer, according to the XFCE docs, in Edit>Preferences, you check the unlimited scrollback box.
Or as @AvindraGoolcharan suggested, you can append ~/.config/xfce/terminal/terminalrc with the line ScrollingUnlimited=TRUE
I found an example of an xfce4-terminal config file that has the unlimited scrollback option added in GitHub user eltonvs's dotfiles.
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