Yanking & pasting text in xmonad/uzbl

I use xmonad as my WM and I've been using uzbl as my browser lately. I regularly want to yank the current page URL or selected text and paste into, say, pidgin, or a text input field in a different browser window.
When I use the "yy" or "yu" default keybinds in uzbl, it yanks it in a way that can be pasted with shift-insert into a terminal. In any other program, though, shift-insert will do nothing, but middle-click will place the yanked text. UZBL seems to be using xclip. Is there any way to change this behaviour? I don't even use the mouse usually.
Also, occasionally when typing I accidentally manage to paste what's in the clipboard. It's not ctrl-V and it's not shift-insert, and I can never replicate the mistake, though I'd like to. Does anyone know what hotkey or combination of trackpad input and keys I could be hitting when this happens?

Cerales wrote:Also, occasionally when typing I accidentally manage to paste what's in the clipboard. It's not ctrl-V and it's not shift-insert, and I can never replicate the mistake, though I'd like to. Does anyone know what hotkey or combination of trackpad input and keys I could be hitting when this happens?
I've never used Xmonad, but I've noticed that, by default, my touchpad is configured to simulate a middle key click (mouse 3 button) if you do a two-finger "click". Thing is, it sometimes does it also when I touch it with a wet finger, with my thumb or, while typing, with my hand: In that cases it pastes the clipboard content.
I actually never went through the problem, as it doesn't happen much often, but it's quite annoying sometimes.
Davide

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