diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
index 086b32bd5..39fbc2a2c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
@@ -848,9 +848,24 @@ fn latin(text: &str, physical: Option<Key>) -> String {
 
 /// For each event, the index of the key press that typed it when it is text: the press right
 /// before it (egui-winit) unless an earlier text took that press, or else the press right after it
-/// (eframe's web build with no text field focused). Each press types at most one text.
+/// (eframe's web build with no text field focused). Each press types at most one text. A text
+/// takes the press after it only when every later text in the same run of alternating texts and
+/// presses has a press after it too; otherwise the text after that press takes it as the press
+/// before it, and this text has none.
 fn typing_presses(events: &[egui::Event]) -> Vec<Option<usize>> {
     let is_press = |k: usize| matches!(events.get(k), Some(egui::Event::Key { pressed: true, .. }));
+    let is_text = |k: usize| matches!(events.get(k), Some(egui::Event::Text(_)));
+    // Whether the run of alternating texts and presses that starts with the text at `j` ends
+    // with a press.
+    let ends_with_press = |mut j: usize| loop {
+        if !is_press(j + 1) {
+            break false;
+        }
+        if !is_text(j + 2) {
+            break true;
+        }
+        j += 2;
+    };
     let mut taken = None;
     events
         .iter()
@@ -860,7 +875,7 @@ fn typing_presses(events: &[egui::Event]) -> Vec<Option<usize>> {
                 return None;
             }
             let before = j.checked_sub(1).filter(|&k| is_press(k) && taken != Some(k));
-            let by = before.or_else(|| Some(j + 1).filter(|&k| is_press(k)));
+            let by = before.or_else(|| ends_with_press(j).then_some(j + 1));
             taken = by.or(taken);
             by
         })
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts/tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts/tests.rs
index 49c41536e..e07c31a74 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts/tests.rs
@@ -1486,6 +1486,11 @@ fn one_key_shortcuts_use_the_key_of_the_same_keystroke_in_either_order() {
     app.select_tool("pen");
     frame(&mut app, vec![press(Key::P), text("з"), press(Key::V), text("м")]);
     assert_eq!(app.session.tool_id(), "selection", "key before its text");
+    // A text with no key press of its own right before a desktop keystroke leaves that press to
+    // the keystroke's text.
+    assert_eq!(typing_presses(&[text("p"), press(Key::V), text("м")]), [None, None, Some(1)]);
+    frame(&mut app, vec![text("p"), press(Key::V), text("м")]);
+    assert_eq!(app.session.tool_id(), "selection", "the text after the key uses it");
     let names = |events: &[egui::Event]| -> Vec<String> {
         shortcut_presses(events, Modifiers::NONE).into_iter().filter_map(|(n, _)| n.into_iter().next()).collect()
     };