diff --git a/debian/nautilus.gsettings-override b/debian/nautilus.gsettings-override
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..176bb0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/nautilus.gsettings-override
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[org.gnome.nautilus.compression]
+default-compression-format='tar.xz'