said Kate Draven:
| Open a graphical package manager, like synaptic, and do a wild card
| search. Just enter "engine" without the quotes. If it's NOT there,
| install it and see if that helps. Remember to go to kcontrol and adjust
| the gtk3 to default. It's under appearances and themes.
bingo. found it, nuked it, gparted runs. (though i ran gparted off another
machine earlier and have been making my 10tb backup for several hours now,
i still need to be able to run it and other applications that use gtk2.)
but it's late, so let's postpone immortal soul deletion for another time.
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