I am so convinced that a music player does NOT need a screensaver to function I have filed an upstream bug for this. Until this is fixed Rhythmbox is unusable outside of GNOME.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411754 -- Rhythmbox launches gnome-screensaver https://launchpad.net/bugs/87591 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs