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Comment by Banekin | Hacker News Reader

Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?

??? My macbook pro has distinct left- and right-click regions on the touch pad. It was still hard to do though without a mouse.

The easiest way I found was to just move the cursor where you want the ball to go, then right click. Repeat.

Ctrl-Click == right-click.

A Macbook user here as well. To try it out, I forked seancron's repository and changed the right mouse button to left mouse button. You have to avoid clicking on links, though.

  javascript:var i,s,ss=['https://github.com/anttisykari/kathack/raw/master/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);

On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.

To elaborate, I got it to work this way:

  * Hold two fingers on middle of track pad
  * Click thumb on bottom of track pad; katamari should start to move at this point
  * Release two fingers on middle of track pad
  * Use single finger to move cursor while still holding down thumb

Oh awesome, that worked beautifully. Thank you!

I tried that, but it works too slowly to continually press with two fingers next to the ball.

I meant is there a way to change the javascript to use a different button?

I can add that once we get the server back to a reasonable speed.

move the mouse to wear you want the ball to move, then hold down right click.

why the downvote?

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