Zach's questions

I am trying to install Ubuntu 24.04. Since I have a windows partition, I chose the manual partitioning. I must choose a drive to install the bootloader. Two drives are listed: my hard drive and my usb stick. Obviously, I want to install the bootloader on the hard drive but it is grayed out and I can only select the USB (see image).

On my hard drive, there is a partition of 104Mo that I indicated I want to use as /boot with format VFAT. I thought maybe it was too small but even if I put a larger /boot VFAT partition, the hard drive is still grayed out... (I will also use sda6 as my root partition but when I set it does not change anything)

I installed several times ubuntu and it is the first time that I face this issue... I have no idea what could be the problem.

Could you tell me how to fix it?

EDIT: As suggested by @user68186, deleting the root and swap partitions on the live USB using gparted before the installation made it possible to select my hardrive for the bootloader.

Edit adding the parted screenshot:

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and its default desktop and I can't manage to trigger a cnee macro using a keyboard shortcut.

I have recorded a simple macro with cnee and saved it in the file /tmp/recorded_macro.xnl. If I use the following linux command in a terminal, the macro is played correctly (my macro simply types "test" in the terminal):

cnee --replay -sp 0 -f /tmp/recorded_macro.xnl

Now I would like to use a keyboard shortcut to start this same macro when the focused window is a text editor (e.g., emacs, visual studio, gnome-terminal, ...). The aim is to write "test" in the focused window. To that end, I created a keyboard shortcut which triggers the exact same cnee command and tried it when the focus is on several text editors. Unfortunately, nothing is written in the editor when I use the shortcut.

To check that the shortcut is correctly triggered, I created the following script and associated it with another keyboard shortcut:

#!/bin/bash
cnee --replay -sp 0 -f /tmp/recorded_macro.xnl
touch /home/user/test

If I execute the script in a terminal, it works ("test" is written in the terminal and the file /home/user/test is created).

However, when I use the shortcut when the focus is in a text editor, the file "test" is created (so the script is executed) but no text is written in the text editor.

Do you know why and how I could fix this?