said Kate Draven: | > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. | > --d3c16e362965d70a34cc090146ec4e842e873d51e7467f7276b927ca2273 | > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" | > | > just plugged in a new external drive and wanted, as i do each time i | > get a new external backup drive, to reformat it ext4. but now sudo | > gparted brings this: | > | > [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'gpartedbin-gtk-tqt-application' | > crashing... | > | > this is similar to a problem i encountered recently with my scanner | > software. i'm running ubuntu 16.04 with TDE 14.0.5. | > | > anybody know how i can fix this? | > -- | > dep | | Hi Dep, | | Go into kcontrol, the GTK Style and Themes under appearance, and play | with the settings until it works. The problem is you are using an | incompatible theme to "retheme" the the application UI. For gtk2, I use | qtcurve. For gtk3, I use default. That's works well for me. However, I | can't say this will for you but it's a starting point.

Thanks very much but no joy. I've now gone through every one of the available themes for each of them (though I did not try all possible combinations). Same crash for each. Alas.