diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd/0001-notification.cpp-include-QStyleOption-explicitely.patch b/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd/0001-notification.cpp-include-QStyleOption-explicitely.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..618d87e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd/0001-notification.cpp-include-QStyleOption-explicitely.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 98549a470361691537e7feadc2e519ea5aeb8320 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
+Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 09:27:54 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] notification.cpp: include QStyleOption explicitely
+
+5.11 Qt headers do not indirectly include QStyleOption resulting in compile
+time errors like:
+| notification.cpp:219:5: error: 'QStyleOption' was not declared in this scope
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/pull/79]
+
+Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
+---
+ src/notification.cpp | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/notification.cpp b/src/notification.cpp
+index 4e1553d..333e974 100644
+--- a/src/notification.cpp
++++ b/src/notification.cpp
+@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
+ #include <KWindowSystem/KWindowSystem>
+ #include <QMouseEvent>
+ #include <QPushButton>
++#include <QStyleOption>
+ 
+ #include "notification.h"
+ #include "notificationwidgets.h"
+-- 
+2.13.6
+
diff --git a/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd_git.bb b/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd_git.bb
index 047da2b1..ecfb1ea6 100644
--- a/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-lxqt/lxqt-notificationd/lxqt-notificationd_git.bb
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ inherit lxqt
 
 DEPENDS += "liblxqt libqtxdg kwindowsystem"
 
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-notification.cpp-include-QStyleOption-explicitely.patch"
 SRCREV = "6a93910037d2d59bd885fa71e2ea713778376869"
 PV = "0.12.0"