I currently have ibus with anthy working, but I had this exact same problem at first. I'm not 100% sure what I finally did to solve it, but I think it may have been a missing environment variable. Here is what I have set: export GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE="/run/current-system/profile/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache" export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus" export QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
I'm thinking the $GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE variable is the missing ingredient. However, while attempting to fix this I also installed the packages: ibus, ibus-anthy, dbus, python-dbus, python2-dbus If you need these packages too to make it work then perhaps its worth investigating if the anthy package is missing some dependencies.
