diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a8211436
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/compton-conf_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+SUMMARY = "GUI configuration tool for compton X composite manager"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0964c689fcf4c21c6797ea87408416b6"
+
+inherit lxqt pkgconfig
+
+DEPENDS += "libconfig"
+
+SRCREV = "3bd14bc34f7731812f3f2833bd4d796ecb36caa0"
+PV = "0.1.0+git${SRCPV}"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-CMakeLists.txt-do-not-completely-overwrite-CMAKE_CXX.patch"
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DUSE_QT5=ON"
diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/files/0001-CMakeLists.txt-do-not-completely-overwrite-CMAKE_CXX.patch b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/files/0001-CMakeLists.txt-do-not-completely-overwrite-CMAKE_CXX.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..39cae4ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/compton-conf/files/0001-CMakeLists.txt-do-not-completely-overwrite-CMAKE_CXX.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From 3ddcc88f24b09c7b53725ae43cc0742ac516aaf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:49:38 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] CMakeLists.txt: do not completely overwrite CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+fixes:
+
+| /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qcompilerdetection.h:882:20: fatal error: utility: No such file or directory
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [1]
+
+[1] https://github.com/lxde/compton-conf/pull/14
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index b5f3b65..268064a 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ pkg_check_modules(LIBCONFIG REQUIRED
+ 
+ include(GNUInstallDirs REQUIRED)
+ 
+-set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-DQT_NO_KEYWORDS -fno-exceptions")
++set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -DQT_NO_KEYWORDS -fno-exceptions")
+ 
+ if(USE_QT5)
+   set(QTX_INCLUDE_DIRS "")
+-- 
+1.9.3
+
diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb b/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb
index a2f10f22..a4f5bf22 100644
--- a/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=4d92cd373abda3937c2bc47fbc49d
 inherit packagegroup distro_features_check
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+    compton-conf \
     liblxqt \
     liblxqt-mount \
     libqtxdg \