diff --git a/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell/0001-Install-liri-session-script-as-executable.patch b/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell/0001-Install-liri-session-script-as-executable.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..21c1e4bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell/0001-Install-liri-session-script-as-executable.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From f0e425864f168dda34cb9f319d969937c563caee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:27:31 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Install liri-session script as executable
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Thanks sddm for doing the right thing (this time) - see [1]
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [2]
+
+[1] https://github.com/lirios/wayland/issues/47
+[2] https://github.com/lirios/shell/pull/159
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+---
+ src/scripts/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/scripts/CMakeLists.txt b/src/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
+index a8d9c10f..d0704b2b 100644
+--- a/src/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
+-install(FILES liri-session
++install(PROGRAMS liri-session
+         DESTINATION "${INSTALL_BINDIR}")
+-- 
+2.14.5
+
diff --git a/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell_git.bb b/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell_git.bb
index ddd9274e..03724968 100644
--- a/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-liri/liri-shell/liri-shell_git.bb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ inherit liri pythonnative distro_features_check gsettings
 
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "wayland pam"
 
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-Install-liri-session-script-as-executable.patch"
 PV = "0.9.0+git${SRCPV}"
 SRCREV = "192e67c93c9acc871539b4e01d4d7c32111f7e93"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"