sudo rm /usr/share/applications/screensavers/screensaver.desktop
where "screensaver" is the name of the screensaver you wish to remove; in this case, the command is:
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/screensavers/jigglypuff.desktop
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May 16, 2009
Removing a screensaver from Ubuntu 9
I'm a Linux newbie, but liking it a lot. However, having installed Ubuntu 9 on an old laptop, where almost everything else works great, I found one screensaver, JigglyPuff, that would lock up the system (meaning even after a reboot I couldn't enter the screensaver config to change it). I found that, to remove it, one has to enter into Terminal mode (from Applications/Accessories), and type (all on one line, with spaces between sudo and rm the last bit):