Repository navigation
TextInput: Shift-Insert does not work to paste #178483
Description
Steps to reproduce
- Within a Flutter visual tree, create a
TextInputwidget. - When running, put focus into the
TextInput. - Press Shift+Insert.
Expected results
The results should be identical to pressing Ctrl+V: The clipboard's contents should be pasted into the TextInput.
Actual results
Nothing.
Code sample
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
void main() {
runApp(const MyApp());
}
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
const MyApp({super.key});
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
Clipboard.setData(ClipboardData(text: "This is some text on the clipboard"));
return MaterialApp(
title: 'Shift-Insert Bug',
home: const MyHomePage(),
);
}
}
class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
const MyHomePage({super.key});
@override
State<MyHomePage> createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}
class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
body: TextField(
decoration: InputDecoration(labelText: "Click here and then press Shift-Insert. (For comparison, press Ctrl-V.)"),
),
);
}
}Screenshots or Video
No response
Logs
No response
Flutter Doctor output
Doctor output
Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.35.7, on Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-6-generic, locale en_CA.UTF-8)
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[✓] VS Code (version 1.105.1)
[✓] Connected device (1 available)
[✓] Network resources
• No issues found!
Activity
logiclrd commentedon Nov 13, 2025
Shift+Insert is a standard paste shortcut on Windows. I am running KDE Plasma 6 on X11 right now, and Shift+Insert pastes everywhere other than Flutter apps on this Linux installation. I have read that Shift+Insert is not a standard Paste shortcut on OS X, so this behaviour is expected to be different on different systems. But, on a system where I can Shift+Insert in Chrome and Visual Studio Code and Kate/Notepad, I expect to be able to Shift+Insert in Flutter apps too.
logiclrd commentedon Nov 13, 2025
Something like this??
But this is platform-agnostic and would enable Shift+Insert on systems where it isn't part of the paradigm. (I'm assuming that's not okay?)
logiclrd commentedon Nov 13, 2025
I don't have an OS X machine to test on, but I just did some searches to see what I could find, and as far as I can tell:
For what it's worth, and all that... 😛
darshankawar commentedon Nov 14, 2025
Thanks for the report. I tried on mac desktop, but it doesn't have
insertkey, although with ctrl + v it does paste the text properly. I also tried with physical magic keyboard but it doesn't have aninsertkey.I'll keep the issue open for team's tracking.
logiclrd commentedon Nov 14, 2025
Oh, yeah, I do recall reading a post somewhere where someone said that the same physical key is marked "Help" or something.
ETA: To be extra sure, you could plug in a USB keyboard with PC-style markings, if you have access to one. If what I read is true, OS X will still see it as the "Help" key, but you'll at least be confidently pressing a button marked "Insert". 😁
logiclrd commentedon Nov 15, 2025
Another observation: When Flutter is rendering to a web browser, whatever the browser supports works. Flutter's shortcut mappings seem to be irrelevant (or at least are overlaid either onto or by the browser's built-in shortcuts). Running against Windows, with currently-released Flutter, the IBM CUA style shortcuts don't work, but if I launch the test app within Chrome, they do work thanks to Chrome. 🙂
Add support for Shift-Delete, Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert (#178561)
logiclrd commentedon Dec 30, 2025
🎉
github-actions commentedon Jan 19, 2026
This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. If you are still experiencing a similar issue, please open a new bug, including the output of
flutter doctor -vand a minimal reproduction of the issue.