Request for multilingual keyboard layout switching

Multi_key, also known as Dead_key, Compose_key is one of a keyboard button adapted to trigger insertion of an alternate character:

Alt Gray is another [Alt] key on the right side of a keyboard, it is often applied as a Multi_key. Win — “Windows” key on a computer keyboard. And yes, Menu is the context-menu key on the right side of keyboard. Thus,

setxkbmap -option "grp:lctrl_lwin_rctrl_menu"

means ‘left Ctrl’ with ‘left Win’ for Latin, and ‘right Ctrl’ with ‘Menu’ will togle Cyrillic input.

The most of that explained in the file mentioned above:
/usr/local/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

Xcompose key binding was discussed here last year:

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