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I'm going to guess that this is a gnome 45 bug, because it works fine for me.

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It seems to be an issue with the keyboard layout!? The bug only happens with German (Neo, QWERTZ) but the regular German has no issue.

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Oh, no that's definitely my fault. Pasting is super hacky and works by creating a virtual keyboard and then executing key presses.

Our key presses are Shift + Insert, so it must be that the neo layout remaps the insert key (I'd be surprised if shift was moved). Not sure how to fix this though. Maybe there's an API to set the language of the keyboard?

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Oh, then I closed it prematurely.
I have linked this issue here to the neo keyboard layout repo: https://git.neo-layout.org/neo/neo-layout/issues/650. I have no idea what's going on here, but I hope both parties can somehow get to the bottom of this.

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Can you ask him where I can find the key codes for notify_key? I don't know what numbers map to shift and insert (and I find any information on what a key is supposed to be).

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So, per the other guy: the keycodes are in /usr/include/linux/input-event-codes.h where
KEY_LEFTSHIFT is 48 and
KEY_INSERT is 110.
"clutter" seems to add the number 8 to them, making the result align with /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev (or the output of xev).

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Ok, can you try applying this patch:

Subject: [PATCH] Use linux key codes for pasting
---
Index: extension.js
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
diff --git a/extension.js b/extension.js
--- a/extension.js	(revision e46f78e7e82b8eec6d591e2a8ace2e1e9077c4f6)
+++ b/extension.js	(revision b0c198d1e9fb1095ee1d8a36586189d63e54d9ec)
@@ -616,25 +616,28 @@
     this._pasteHackCallbackId = Mainloop.timeout_add(
       1, // Just post to the end of the event loop
       () => {
+        const SHIFT_L = 42;
+        const INSERT = 110;
+
         const eventTime = Clutter.get_current_event_time() * 1000;
-        VirtualKeyboard().notify_keyval(
+        VirtualKeyboard().notify_key(
           eventTime,
-          Clutter.KEY_Shift_L,
+          SHIFT_L,
           Clutter.KeyState.PRESSED,
         );
-        VirtualKeyboard().notify_keyval(
+        VirtualKeyboard().notify_key(
           eventTime,
-          Clutter.KEY_Insert,
+          INSERT,
           Clutter.KeyState.PRESSED,
         );
-        VirtualKeyboard().notify_keyval(
+        VirtualKeyboard().notify_key(
           eventTime,
-          Clutter.KEY_Insert,
+          INSERT,
           Clutter.KeyState.RELEASED,
         );
-        VirtualKeyboard().notify_keyval(
+        VirtualKeyboard().notify_key(
           eventTime,
-          Clutter.KEY_Shift_L,
+          SHIFT_L,
           Clutter.KeyState.RELEASED,
         );
 

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I've been running that solution for a while now and it works fine (be5d98c), so closing.

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It's working for me as well! Sorry I didn't find the time to test your patch, but I just tried the latest version and can now confirm that it works. Thanks for taking care of this issue even though it turned out to affect a rather small set of users!

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Awesome!

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