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Arjen
Arjen
Level 1.6: Donut
September 15, 2026
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Preffered language not working for GBoard

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I am trying to make a policy in Omnissa Workspace One for Gboard. 
I want the keyboard to be a Slovenian QWERTZ keyboard but without changing the android system language. 
This is because our support needs to remote control the devices and use normal mouse an keyboard then. 
The employees working with the devices will use gboard and this should be in slovenian.

What I need:

  • Gboard working with sl-SL from a managed config without changing system language. 

My current config:

 

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    Moombas
    Moombas
    Level 4.4: KitKat
    September 15, 2026

    I don’t work with WS1 but managed app config is independent of it.
    In Soti Mobicontrol i get following info screen for this field:

    And i don’t think it works like you guessed, i guess it would be more like sl-SL=layout11 but i never used it yet tbh.

    But accordingly to what i found, wouldn’t be hr-Hr, the correct layout (it’s the default one for slovenia and it’s quertz)?

    https://kbdlayout.info/kbdcr

     

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    Moombas
    Moombas
    Level 4.4: KitKat
    September 15, 2026

    ​@Arjen I played around a bit. In Mobiconrol i was only able to use the pattern like hr-HR but it didn’t take effect as i guess it need to be activated as system language as well (just to be there) which i can’t test as i don’t understand that language to revert settings back :D

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    Arjen
    ArjenAuthor
    Level 1.6: Donut
    September 16, 2026

    So did more research, You need to install a language pack into gboard. 
    Then manually switch language and then the keyboard preference will be used. 
    This cannot be done automatically. 

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    Moombas
    Moombas
    Level 4.4: KitKat
    September 15, 2026

    But on all of that, why do you need to use the keyboard by mouse?

    When we tested RC with WS1, remote keyboard worked fine after we got Workspace One Assist setup the right way.

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    Arjen
    ArjenAuthor
    Level 1.6: Donut
    September 16, 2026

    We use the normal RC through WS1. 
    We also use our normal keyboard and mouse as stated above. (minus a typo i see.)

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    Moombas
    Moombas
    Level 4.4: KitKat
    September 16, 2026

    But the “normal” remote control contains remote keyboard/input as far as i know (it was at least a requirement from our side) and as far as i remember it requires Assist to get this functionality.

    I recommend to reach out to WS1 support to help you to get remote input working instead of trying to get a workaround done which is even less comfortable (one click per character instead of just typing on local keyboard).

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      Arjen
      ArjenAuthor
      Level 1.6: Donut
      September 16, 2026

      It just means we cannot change the device language, I only want another keyboard language. 
      I found out that this cannot be done remotely. 

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      Moombas
      Moombas
      Level 4.4: KitKat
      September 17, 2026

      I understood that you wanted another keyboard language but the reason why you wanted it doesn’t make sense to me:

      “This is because our support needs to remote control the devices and use normal mouse an keyboard then.”

      As told, if you have the input from your local keyboard provided to the remote controlled device, there’s no need for this. And this is possible during a remote control session. We use that in Mobicontrol and we used it in our test with WS1 (as said as far as i remember requires Assist to be present).

      Thats why i said, i very recommend to reach out to the WS1 support to get this working as it should. No workaround, no manual steps just working as intuitive and easy as possible.

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      Arjen
      ArjenAuthor
      Level 1.6: Donut
      September 17, 2026

      Its quite easy, 
      We cannot change the system language to Slovenian because our support doesnt speak slovenian. 
      We want the keyboard to use Slovenian so that users can type with their native keyboard. 

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