Comment 44 for bug 173350

I just created a brand new account, and verified that my observations in comment 42 are still happening in a new account. That is, using the xorg.conf workaround, with all defaults for Gnome keyboard preferences and *no* ~/.xmodmaprc file, the default behavior of Gnome overrides the xorg.conf configured keyboard option, but the caps lock light respects that keyboard option.

So, this is definitely default Gnome behavior, and not cruft in one of my dot files.