diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-session/patches/0001-revert-autostart-app-Strip-blacklisted-variables-fro.patch b/srcpkgs/gnome-session/patches/0001-revert-autostart-app-Strip-blacklisted-variables-fro.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cfd9f4ba6cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-session/patches/0001-revert-autostart-app-Strip-blacklisted-variables-fro.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+From 1de3575a1ea9cdb3579ad538108c51818847797c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
+Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 11:48:02 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] revert: autostart-app: Strip blacklisted variables from
+ autostart environment
+
+This breaks gnome-session on non-systemd systems.
+
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/issues/44
+---
+ gnome-session/gsm-autostart-app.c | 5 -----
+ gnome-session/gsm-util.c          | 6 ------
+ gnome-session/gsm-util.h          | 1 -
+ 3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/gnome-session/gsm-autostart-app.c b/gnome-session/gsm-autostart-app.c
+index 6fd5915..01ba5f9 100644
+--- gnome-session/gsm-autostart-app.c
++++ gnome-session/gsm-autostart-app.c
+@@ -997,7 +997,6 @@ autostart_app_start_spawn (GsmAutostartApp *app,
+         gboolean         success;
+         GError          *local_error;
+         const char      *startup_id;
+-        const char * const *variable_blacklist;
+         const char * const *child_environment;
+         int i;
+         GAppLaunchContext *ctx;
+@@ -1014,10 +1013,6 @@ autostart_app_start_spawn (GsmAutostartApp *app,
+         local_error = NULL;
+         ctx = g_app_launch_context_new ();
+ 
+-        variable_blacklist = gsm_util_get_variable_blacklist ();
+-        for (i = 0; variable_blacklist[i] != NULL; i++)
+-                g_app_launch_context_unsetenv (ctx, variable_blacklist[i]);
+-
+         child_environment = gsm_util_listenv ();
+         for (i = 0; child_environment[i] != NULL; i++) {
+                 char **environment_tuple;
+diff --git a/gnome-session/gsm-util.c b/gnome-session/gsm-util.c
+index 02bc4a5..ada1225 100644
+--- gnome-session/gsm-util.c
++++ gnome-session/gsm-util.c
+@@ -808,9 +808,3 @@ gsm_util_listenv (void)
+         return (const char * const *) child_environment;
+ 
+ }
+-
+-const char * const *
+-gsm_util_get_variable_blacklist (void)
+-{
+-        return variable_blacklist;
+-}
+diff --git a/gnome-session/gsm-util.h b/gnome-session/gsm-util.h
+index bd7b698..8bca5f4 100644
+--- gnome-session/gsm-util.h
++++ gnome-session/gsm-util.h
+@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ char *      gsm_util_generate_startup_id            (void);
+ void        gsm_util_setenv                         (const char *variable,
+                                                      const char *value);
+ const char * const * gsm_util_listenv               (void);
+-const char * const * gsm_util_get_variable_blacklist(void);
+ 
+ gboolean    gsm_util_export_activation_environment  (GError     **error);
+ #ifdef HAVE_SYSTEMD
+-- 
+2.24.0
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-session/patches/no-systemd-dep.patch b/srcpkgs/gnome-session/patches/no-systemd-dep.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8e55a0f7987
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-session/patches/no-systemd-dep.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- meson.build
++++ meson.build
+@@ -130,10 +130,7 @@ if enable_systemd or enable_consolekit
+ 
+   # Check for systemd
+   if enable_systemd
+-    systemd_dep = dependency('systemd', version: '>= 242', required: true)
+-    systemd_userunitdir = systemd_dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('systemduserunitdir',
+-                                                             define_variable: ['prefix', prefix])
+-
++    systemd_userunitdir = '/tmp'
+     libsystemd_dep = dependency('libsystemd', version: '>= 209', required: false)
+     session_bin_deps += libsystemd_dep
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-session/template b/srcpkgs/gnome-session/template
index 4444f162bf1..c9bc4930c39 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnome-session/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-session/template
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'gnome-session'
 pkgname=gnome-session
-version=3.34.1
+version=3.38.0
 revision=1
 build_style=meson
-configure_args="-Dsystemd_journal=false"
+configure_args="-Dsystemd_journal=false -Dsystemd_session=disable"
 hostmakedepends="glib-devel intltool pkg-config xmlto"
 makedepends="elogind-devel gnome-desktop-devel gtk+3-devel json-glib-devel
  libglib-devel libICE-devel libSM-devel libXtst-devel startup-notification-devel
@@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 homepage="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/${pkgname}/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=d7801fe2d5a751b19cb58081771316a76aabd5c550cd58d4e4c6a5a4ed356660
+checksum=7bcc0eb2cdba4b3f6d1b459b3a30873b7bb65b383c1f6a5f63c3e3b5c7943d67
+
+post_install() {
+	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/tmp
+}