Comment 6 for bug 879838

This bug annoys me, too, and I've seen it in Oneiric (11.10) and Precise (12.04). I guess it is present in Quantal and Raring, too.

I have configured “German Neo 2” and “German eliminate dead keys” layouts, and whatever I choose as the secondary layout does not work correctly. Only the primary layout works as expected.

If Neo is the secondary layout, both Mod4 keys are completely ignored, so instead of layer 4 and 6 I get layer 1 and 3, respectively. (See http://neo-layout.org/ for details.)

If “Qwertz” is the secondary layout, I can't type “<”, “>” and “|”, because the left one of the two Neo-Mod4-keys is dead. This makes working on the command line rather impossible.

My workaround is to select Neo as the primary layout, and if someone else (unfamiliar with Neo) needs to type on my keyboard, I have to change the primary layout.