The only other thing I can think of right now which might be different is the way I'm starting ibus. Instead of ibus-setup, what happens if you launch it with ibus-daemon -drx and then access the preferences by right clicking the tray icon (or perhaps running ibus-setup _after_ the daemon is launched if you have no tray icon) On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 04:26:29PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > What I said was incomplete. I just tried again; ibus-anthy works fine > for me only when e.g. entering text in GNOME Shell’s search bar, but > not when entering text in the terminal. Sorry. If I recall correctly I had this issue as well, where input would not work in the terminal even though it worked in other applications, until I changed some of my environment variables to "xim" instead of "ibus". According to the Arch Wiki here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus there are claims from some users that things don't work until they replace "ibus" with "xim".