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Castling in Chess960

This regards situations, in which the King is already in in place on the destination square. What is the procedure for enacting the castle?

I used to think that you dragged the rook. However, it's not working in my current game. I've tried clicking the rook's square (until it turns orange) and then the destination square. The King isn't
in check, and I don't think I've moved it.
Move the king to the rook. Castling is always achieved by moving the king.
To thibault & other godlike coders,
____ Where's the more gentle 3 paragraphs I just typed?? lost! -- hit some sort of escape key?? ......... Here's the short version: Tried to castle queen-side using above directions and it didn't work. 960 version 731 game with noob21 --- arguably this cost me the game
This came up again with version/ position 20 AND YET MY OPPONENT WAS ABLE to do so ---- meaning there is some funky unexplained rule about clear space... (i cleared the entire back line except for the 2 actors

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