diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
index 59aa4f1f..6a4ff578 100644
--- a/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PV = "0.1.0+git${SRCPV}"
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/${BPN}/compton.conf.example"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DUSE_QT5=ON"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "compton"