When I start up pudb, it becomes a useable mess. Most of the windows are ten-twenty characters big. Every window is scrunched up against the left. Even the help window is all scrunched up and so unreadable.
How can I adjust these parameters? The distro is Linux Mint.
Apparently Mint has problems with default fonts for Terminal. Pudb has user interface with windows created from characters so it relies on a terminal font which is not a proportional one. You need a font like monospace or courier. You have probably the same behavior for other console programs with this type of GUI, e.g. Midnight Commander so it's not pudb specific. See this: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=136496