Pudb source screen is squished, other screens are expanded (see screenshot)

Question

Any solution to this? This happens in certain folders, not in every folder. Cannot figure out what causes this.

Worth mentioning that another c++ program is invoking the python script that has 'from pudb import set_trace' and 'set_trace()' in it.

Answer 1

What else may work for you is the pudb.cfg file. This file can be located at ~/.config/pudb

You can change the sidebar_width = 0.4, where 0.4 can be changed to a value of your taste.

The higher the value, the bigger the screen size.

Answer 2

Fixed but not root-caused. Turns out, a redirection (of the logs into a file) in the run-script was causing it. Removing the redirection fixed it.