Comment 5 for bug 835532

Yes, this is something which gnome-settings-daemon takes care of, but it's disabled in the current version in oneiric (there's a big block of code in gsd-keyboard-manager.c commented out). This recent commit will fix it though:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=808640667656668693cedd685f6a830bddc0117d