Comment 10 for bug 890438

I totally understand your irritation. But that is the way things worked for years (before xorg split from xfree86 and I started maintaining xk-c). I guess you understand that changing that behavior for very popular switchers would irritate a lot of users that used to the existing behavior.

Regarding not switching from UA to US - it is quite trivial. In the Ukrainian layout (group 3), RAlt is used for access to level 3. So at that point it is not a part of the group switcher any more.

    key <RALT> {
        type[group1]= "TWO_LEVEL",
        type[group2]= "TWO_LEVEL",
        type[group3]= "ONE_LEVEL",
        symbols[Group1]= [ Alt_R, ISO_Next_Group ],
        symbols[Group2]= [ Alt_R, ISO_Next_Group ],
        symbols[Group3]= [ ISO_Level3_Shift ]
    };