The capplet is only an ui setting the option it's not what makes it applied or wouldn't change it latter especially if the capplet is closed, reassigning to gnome-settings-daemon but it could be also something on the xorg side which reset the value during the upgrade
The capplet is only an ui setting the option it's not what makes it applied or wouldn't change it latter especially if the capplet is closed, reassigning to gnome-settings- daemon but it could be also something on the xorg side which reset the value during the upgrade