diff --git a/lib/main.dart b/lib/main.dart
index 9a8ba5b5..50ac164e 100644
--- a/lib/main.dart
+++ b/lib/main.dart
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import 'package:cwtch/config.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/notification_manager.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/themes/cwtch.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/views/messageview.dart';
-import 'package:cwtch/widgets/rightshiftfixer.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/cwtch/ffi.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/cwtch/gomobile.dart';
@@ -11,7 +10,6 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/errorHandler.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/settings.dart';
 import 'package:cwtch/torstatus.dart';
-import 'package:cwtch/views/triplecolview.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
 import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
 import 'cwtch/cwtch.dart';
@@ -110,7 +108,7 @@ class FlwtchState extends State<Flwtch> {
             supportedLocales: AppLocalizations.supportedLocales,
             title: 'Cwtch',
             theme: mkThemeData(settings),
-            home: (!appState.cwtchInit || appState.modalState != ModalState.none) ?  SplashView() : ShiftRightFixer(child: ProfileMgrView()),
+            home: (!appState.cwtchInit || appState.modalState != ModalState.none) ?  SplashView() : ProfileMgrView(),
           ),
         );
       },
diff --git a/lib/views/triplecolview.dart b/lib/views/triplecolview.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index 4156c738..00000000
--- a/lib/views/triplecolview.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:cwtch/views/profilemgrview.dart';
-import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
-import 'package:flutter_gen/gen_l10n/app_localizations.dart';
-import '../main.dart';
-import '../model.dart';
-import '../settings.dart';
-import 'contactsview.dart';
-import 'messageview.dart';
-
-// currently unused but maybe one day?
-class TripleColumnView extends StatefulWidget {
-  @override
-  _TripleColumnViewState createState() => _TripleColumnViewState();
-}
-
-class _TripleColumnViewState extends State<TripleColumnView> {
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    var appState = Provider.of<AppState>(context);
-    var settings = Provider.of<Settings>(context);
-    var columns = settings.uiColumns(appState.isLandscape(context));
-
-    return Flex(direction: Axis.horizontal, children: <Widget>[
-      Flexible(
-        flex: columns[0],
-        child: ProfileMgrView(),
-      ),
-      Flexible(
-        flex: columns[1],
-        child: appState.selectedProfile == null ? Center(child: Text(AppLocalizations.of(context)!.createProfileToBegin)) : ContactsView(), //dev
-      ),
-      Flexible(
-        flex: columns[2],
-        child: appState.selectedConversation == null
-            ? Center(child: Text(AppLocalizations.of(context)!.addContactFirst))
-            : //dev
-            Container(child: MessageView()),
-      ),
-    ]);
-  }
-}
diff --git a/lib/widgets/rightshiftfixer.dart b/lib/widgets/rightshiftfixer.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index cf4c6dac..00000000
--- a/lib/widgets/rightshiftfixer.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
-
-// From https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/75675#issuecomment-846601115
-// necessary to fix bug in flutter engine on Windows.
-// todo: hopefully we can remove this soon
-class ShiftRightFixer extends StatefulWidget {
-  ShiftRightFixer({required this.child});
-  final Widget child;
-  @override
-  State<StatefulWidget> createState() => _ShiftRightFixerState();
-}
-
-class _ShiftRightFixerState extends State<ShiftRightFixer> {
-  final FocusNode focus = FocusNode(skipTraversal: true, canRequestFocus: false);
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Focus(
-      focusNode: focus,
-      onKey: (_, RawKeyEvent event) {
-        return event.physicalKey == PhysicalKeyboardKey.shiftRight ? KeyEventResult.handled : KeyEventResult.ignored;
-      },
-      child: widget.child,
-    );
-  }
-}