[ldarby]

> I'm annoyed when I have to move my hand back to the mouse.

You can bind a keyboard shortcut to a script that copies the primary to clipboard, then can use ctrl-v. Most apps also bind shift-insert to paste the paste buffer, so I bind shift-delete to this script, then to paste the primary it's just shift-delete then shift-insert. Here's the "script":

     xsel -p | xsel -i -b