diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index e04f7bc1ff7..96d1a6bd183 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1.0.so.0 gst-plugins-bad1-1.0.0_1
 libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0 gst-plugins-bad1-1.0.0_1
 libgstplayer-1.0.so.0 gst-plugins-bad1-1.0.0_1
 libgstgl-1.0.so.0 gst-plugins-base1-1.14.0_1
-libgnome-desktop-3.so.18 gnome-desktop-3.34.0_1
+libgnome-desktop-3.so.19 gnome-desktop-3.37.90.1_1
 libsecret-1.so.0 libsecret-0.10_1
 libgweather-3.so.16 libgweather-3.34.0_1
 libgnomekbd.so.8 libgnomekbd-3.6.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/patches/build.patch b/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/patches/build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..efed00a25dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/patches/build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+commit 4f55ff078411993b782e74ea18c5c6ab35adf685
+Author: Daniel Kolesa <daniel@octaforge.org>
+Date:   Wed Aug 12 05:26:00 2020 +0200
+
+    bla
+
+diff --git libgnome-desktop/gnome-rr.h libgnome-desktop/gnome-rr.h
+index 111bab3..7698672 100644
+--- libgnome-desktop/gnome-rr.h
++++ libgnome-desktop/gnome-rr.h
+@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
+ #error    GnomeRR is unstable API. You must define GNOME_DESKTOP_USE_UNSTABLE_API before including gnomerr.h
+ #endif
+ 
++#include <stdint.h>
+ #include <glib.h>
+ #include <gdk/gdk.h>
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/template b/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/template
index 992cb1ff16a..bd0b2f5c1d9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-desktop/template
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'gnome-desktop'
 pkgname=gnome-desktop
-version=3.34.1
+version=3.38.0
 revision=1
 build_style=meson
 build_helper="gir"
-configure_args="-Dgnome-distributor=VoidLinux -Dudev=enabled
+configure_args="-Dgnome_distributor=VoidLinux -Dudev=enabled -Dsystemd=disabled
  -Dintrospection=$(vopt_if gir true false)"
 hostmakedepends="gettext itstool pkg-config glib-devel"
 makedepends="eudev-libudev-devel gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel gtk+3-devel
@@ -16,11 +16,16 @@ maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 homepage="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/${pkgname}/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=c1dbeb5666dad27166c769e48e2ab41dd5ed74718ea35eb57c8488790662dc5a
+checksum=089dbbe3c66fe5575659a4a385d5d4bbd99cf637034df317f21cf586b5dd6b90
 
 build_options="gir"
 build_options_default="gir"
 
+# needs X
+do_check() {
+	:
+}
+
 gnome-desktop-devel_package() {
 	depends="gtk+3-devel gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel>=3.12
 	 gdk-pixbuf-devel iso-codes libX11-devel libglib-devel libseccomp-devel