diff --git a/recipes-trueos/lumina/files/0001-lumina-desktop.pro-fix-out-of-tree-installation.patch b/recipes-trueos/lumina/files/0001-lumina-desktop.pro-fix-out-of-tree-installation.patch
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+From 1950d0059162a0ab3cfb02b71143a5b096aa1c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:22:58 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] lumina-desktop.pro: fix out of tree installation
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Fixes:
+| cp: cannot stat 'defaults/desktop-background.jpg': No such file or directory
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+---
+ src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/lumina-desktop.pro | 12 ++++++------
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/lumina-desktop.pro b/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/lumina-desktop.pro
+index 82da892..9c8272c 100644
+--- a/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/lumina-desktop.pro
++++ b/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/lumina-desktop.pro
+@@ -92,17 +92,17 @@ conf.path = $${L_ETCDIR}
+   message("Installing defaults settings for OS: $${DEFAULT_SETTINGS}")
+   OS=$${DEFAULT_SETTINGS}
+ }
+-exists("defaults/luminaDesktop-$${OS}.conf"){
++exists("$$PWD/defaults/luminaDesktop-$${OS}.conf"){
+   message(" -- Found OS-specific system config file: $${OS}");
+-  conf.extra = cp defaults/luminaDesktop-$${OS}.conf $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_ETCDIR}/luminaDesktop.conf.dist
++  conf.extra = cp $$PWD/defaults/luminaDesktop-$${OS}.conf $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_ETCDIR}/luminaDesktop.conf.dist
+ }else{
+-  conf.extra = cp defaults/luminaDesktop.conf $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_ETCDIR}/luminaDesktop.conf.dist
++  conf.extra = cp $$PWD/defaults/luminaDesktop.conf $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_ETCDIR}/luminaDesktop.conf.dist
+ }
+-exists("defaults/desktop-background-$${OS}.jpg"){
++exists("$$PWD/defaults/desktop-background-$${OS}.jpg"){
+   message(" -- Found OS-specific background image: $${OS}");
+-  defaults.extra = cp defaults/desktop-background-$${OS}.jpg $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_SHAREDIR}/lumina-desktop/desktop-background.jpg
++  defaults.extra = cp $$PWD/defaults/desktop-background-$${OS}.jpg $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_SHAREDIR}/lumina-desktop/desktop-background.jpg
+ }else{
+-  defaults.extra = cp defaults/desktop-background.jpg $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_SHAREDIR}/lumina-desktop/desktop-background.jpg
++  defaults.extra = cp $$PWD/defaults/desktop-background.jpg $(INSTALL_ROOT)$${L_SHAREDIR}/lumina-desktop/desktop-background.jpg
+ }
+ 
+ TRANSLATIONS =  i18n/lumina-desktop_af.ts \
+-- 
+2.9.5
+
diff --git a/recipes-trueos/lumina/lumina_1.4.bb b/recipes-trueos/lumina/lumina_1.4.bb
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+++ b/recipes-trueos/lumina/lumina_1.4.bb
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+SUMMARY = "Lumina Desktop Environment"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://lumina-desktop.org/"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=45b10a7bfb52b622b91ca67ea02e4afa"
+
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
+
+inherit qmake5 distro_features_check gtk-icon-cache
+
+DEPENDS += "qtbase qtx11extras qtmultimedia qtsvg poppler"
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://github.com/trueos/lumina.git \
+    file://0001-lumina-desktop.pro-fix-out-of-tree-installation.patch \
+"
+SRCREV = "a881c51e7b20f086b6b8b546c116d38478f87840"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    # change paths by sed instead of endles escapes in 'DEFINES+=..' below
+    sed -i 's:L_ETCDIR:QString("${sysconfdir}"):' `find ${S} -name *.cpp`
+    sed -i 's:L_SHAREDIR:QString("${datadir}"):' `find ${S} -name *.cpp`
+    sed -i 's:$${MAN_ZIP}:gzip -c:' `find ${S} -name *.pro`
+}
+
+# Override magic in src-qt5/OS-detect.pri to our paths
+EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE += ' \
+    OS=Linux \
+    PREFIX=${prefix} \
+    L_BINDIR=${bindir} \
+    L_LIBDIR=${libdir} \
+    L_ETCDIR=${sysconfdir} \
+    L_SHAREDIR=${datadir} \
+    L_INCLUDEDIR=${STAGING_INCDIR} \
+    L_SESSDIR=${datadir}/xsessions \
+    L_MANDIR=${mandir} \
+    LRELEASE=${OE_QMAKE_PATH_EXTERNAL_HOST_BINS}/lrelease \
+    DEFINES+=WITH_I18N \
+'
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-icon-themes"
+
+FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${datadir}/lthemeengine \
+    ${datadir}/lumina-desktop \
+    ${datadir}/xsessions \
+    ${OE_QMAKE_PATH_PLUGINS} \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-icon-themes = "${datadir}/icons"
+
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-icon-themes"