diff --git a/src/apprt/gtk/App.zig b/src/apprt/gtk/App.zig
index fb58c341a..22a1eebe5 100644
--- a/src/apprt/gtk/App.zig
+++ b/src/apprt/gtk/App.zig
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ pub fn init(core_app: *CoreApp, opts: Options) !App {
     const css_provider = c.gtk_css_provider_new();
     try loadRuntimeCss(&config, css_provider);
 
-    // Run a small no-op function so that we don't get stuck in
-    // g_main_context_iteration forever if there are no open surfaces.
+    // Run a small no-op function every 500 milliseconds so that we don't get
+    // stuck in g_main_context_iteration forever if there are no open surfaces.
     _ = c.g_timeout_add(500, gtkTimeout, null);
 
     return .{
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ pub fn run(self: *App) !void {
 
                         // If the background timeout is not null, check to see
                         // if the timeout has elapsed.
-                        if (self.config.@"background-timeout".duration) |duration| {
+                        if (self.config.@"quit-after-last-window-closed-delay".duration) |duration| {
                             const now = try std.time.Instant.now();
 
                             if (now.since(last_one) > duration)
diff --git a/src/config/Config.zig b/src/config/Config.zig
index 87ebb2ba0..afb79dc5f 100644
--- a/src/config/Config.zig
+++ b/src/config/Config.zig
@@ -896,11 +896,11 @@ else switch (builtin.os.tag) {
 
 /// If `quit-after-last-window-closed` is set to `after-timeout`, this controls
 /// how long Ghostty will stay running after the last open surface has been
-/// closed.  If the `background-timeout` is unset Ghostty will remain running
-/// indefinitely. The duration should be long enough to allow Ghostty to
-/// initialize and open it's first window. The duration is specified as a series
-/// of numbers followed by time units. Whitespace is allowed between numbers and
-/// units. The allowed time units are as follows:
+/// closed.  If `quit-after-last-window-closed-delay` is unset Ghostty will
+/// remain running indefinitely. The duration should be long enough to allow
+/// Ghostty to initialize and open it's first window. The duration is specified
+/// as a series of numbers followed by time units. Whitespace is allowed between
+/// numbers and units. The allowed time units are as follows:
 ///
 ///   * `y` - 365 SI days, or 8760 hours, or 31536000 seconds. No adjustments
 ///     are made for leap years or leap seconds.
@@ -918,10 +918,10 @@ else switch (builtin.os.tag) {
 ///
 /// The maximum value is `584y 49w 23h 34m 33s 709ms 551µs 615ns`.
 ///
-/// By default the `background-timeout` is set to five minutes.
+/// By default `quit-after-last-window-closed-delay` is set to five minutes.
 ///
 /// Only implemented on Linux.
-@"background-timeout": Duration = .{ .duration = 5 * std.time.ns_per_min },
+@"quit-after-last-window-closed-delay": Duration = .{ .duration = 5 * std.time.ns_per_min },
 
 /// Whether to enable shell integration auto-injection or not. Shell integration
 /// greatly enhances the terminal experience by enabling a number of features: