diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/lxmenu-data/lxmenu-data_git.bb b/recipes-lxqt/lxmenu-data/lxmenu-data_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7387fd4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/lxmenu-data/lxmenu-data_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+SUMMARY = "Desktop menu files for LXDE"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0964c689fcf4c21c6797ea87408416b6"
+
+inherit autotools gettext
+
+DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 intltool-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/lxde/${BPN}.git;protocol=git;branch=master"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+SRCREV = "4a2342616c5cc2a089256ebb64e763ff7cb0d5a6"
+PV = "0.1.4"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/desktop-directories"
diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb b/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb
index a4f5bf22..e27df75e 100644
--- a/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/packagegroups/lxqt-world.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
     liblxqt-mount \
     libqtxdg \
     libsysstat \
+    lxmenu-data \
     lxqt-common \
     lxqt-config \
     lxqt-globalkeys \