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I'm trying to find a way to automatically switch skydome 'wallpapers' for Compiz Cube based on time, say ten minutes. Having each of my desktops use a different one would be bonus internets.

Any help would be awesomely appreciated.

Edit: In case anyone's interested, here's a small script you can run from cron. 

#!/bin/bash
pic=/your/background/directory 
newbg="$(ls $pic | shuf -n1)"
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/cube/screen0/skydome_image org.freedesktop.compiz.set string:"$pic$newbg"

See http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Dbus

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Was there a reason for removing Kubuntu from my title, other than the fact that Compiz is available for both? I thought it was pretty appropriate considering that I'm running Kubuntu. – user12878 Mar 23 '11 at 16:42
This site uses tags to identify different Ubuntu releases and desktop environments, and the convention is to avoid duplicating this information in question titles whenever possible. It helps keep the site more readable. – ændrük Mar 24 '11 at 15:00
I can understand tags, since I'm from SO, but I figured since this was KDE-specific it needed to be pointed out as such, as there are easier ways to do this from Gnome. In the end I obviously decided to point out "KDE" since that was the discerning part and maybe people with Ubuntu are using KDE (why I have no idea haha). – user12878 Mar 24 '11 at 15:59
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