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I'm using linux (debian), a (new) morse paddle and use as an adapter an CW Trainer Typ C interface/USB interface
(https://www.ebay.de/itm/395808165811)
If I plug the adapter and the morse key in my PC, the green light on the adapter goes on and the morse paddle is recognised as a mouse. To try my setup, I opened Xcwcp and have gone to "receive keyed CW". But there I could only use the mouse of my laptop to input morse. Same was on the website here in "transmitting practice". On videos/instructions in the internet, people just put there paddle in and they could use it.
Has someone here suggestions how I could solve the problem? Or knows which 10 year old instruction on how to connect a paddle with linux is still working? I'm a bit confused with my problem.
Thanks!

Edit: I also tried websites like morsemeplease.com/ and web-adventures.org/MorseBlitz/ on both of them the paddle wasn't recognised.
And I tried a different aux to aux cable with no difference.
my morse paddle is similiar to these: https://www.ebay.de/itm/389150226674

Partly solved my problem, I didn't realise, that I also have to connect my morse paddle with a usb-usb c data cable to the PC.
Now it's works partly, but strangely I can only use one side of the paddle. Also either produce dahs or dits, if I use Xcwcp or morsemeplease.com
But here in the transmitting practice I can use my paddle as a straight key.

Theoretically my adapter has two working modes, but only one seems to work, maybe, that is part of the problem.

Anyway, I try to troubleshoot further. But if anybody here has ideas, please share :)

Hi beech, just a "me too" from me.
Using Linux, and I modified an old USB-mouse so the connected straight key does come up as "left mouse button pressed", i.e. in morsemeplease.com .

Even if with a connected paddle pressing the second contact would come up as "right mouse button pressed", these would still be single events and some logic in the computer, i.e. the browser, would need to implement the keyer functionality and generate a sequence of dits/dahs as long as these contacts are closed. That would also need to allow configuration of a desired WordPerMinute setting.

I'm at lesson 24 with reading the code, started "giving" with the straight key. Getting the right timing is hard though, and using a paddle would help with that early.

73 de DJ0CH/JL1AYH