diff --git a/srcpkgs/plasma-systemmonitor/patches/disable-applications-page.patch b/srcpkgs/plasma-systemmonitor/patches/disable-applications-page.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b63909ec2f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/plasma-systemmonitor/patches/disable-applications-page.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+The Applications page requires that every application runs in it's own cgroup
+But this behaviour is only implemented in Plasma for Systemd systems.
+So disable by default, since it is pretty much useless for us
+
+--- src/systemmonitor.kcfg	2021-01-21 14:01:55.000000000 +0100
++++ -	2021-01-22 19:12:44.908000104 +0100
+@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
+             <default>overview.page,applications.page,history.page,processes.page</default>
+         </entry>
+         <entry name="hiddenPages" type="StringList">
++            <default>applications.page</default>
+         </entry>
+     </group>
+ </kcfg>
diff --git a/srcpkgs/plasma-systemmonitor/template b/srcpkgs/plasma-systemmonitor/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5817f07da8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/plasma-systemmonitor/template
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Template file for 'plasma-systemmonitor'
+pkgname=plasma-systemmonitor
+version=5.21.1
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+hostmakedepends="extra-cmake-modules gettext qt5-host-tools qt5-qmake
+ kconfig kcoreaddons"
+makedepends="kirigami2-devel libksysguard-devel kitemmodels-devel"
+short_desc="Application for monitoring system resources"
+maintainer="John <me@johnnynator.dev>"
+license="GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only OR LGPL-3.0-only"
+homepage="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor"
+distfiles="${KDE_SITE}/plasma/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=caf40d632c31097e09d98e913dfb9802c8d3aecaf041115be6c447a1b4a5d5d5