Living Lightning Not working on some skills

Living Lightning can be socketed into shockwave totems and spear throw, but neither will proc the minions. The base melee spear attack will proc them just fine.

Also doesn't work on mirage archer

I've also tried it on Raise Shield paired with support gems Lightning Attunement (because shield bash does damage) and with Crackling Barrier (because it's channeling) and neither combo would spawn any minions.

Same for Unearth. I paired Lightning Attunement with Living Lightning and neither the bone spikes hitting enemies or the constructs themselves doing damage would trigger a lightning minion.

Bump. This is still an issue with shockwave totems in 0.4. you can socket the gem but it wont spawn the lightning minions.

It also doesn't seem to work with Storm Burst of Repulsion

Are you sure you're dealing lightning damage with those skills? Living lightning only works if the skill it's linked to deals some lightning damage.