diff --git a/srcpkgs/xkblayout-state/patches/make.patch b/srcpkgs/xkblayout-state/patches/make.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..20751601c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xkblayout-state/patches/make.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+diff --git Makefile Makefile
+index c32ed6b..fb2e7a3 100644
+--- Makefile
++++ Makefile
+@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
+-all: xkblayout-state
++PROG=xkblayout-state
+ 
+-XKeyboard.o: XKeyboard.cpp XKeyboard.h X11Exception.h
+-	g++ -c -Wall -O2 XKeyboard.cpp -o XKeyboard.o
++SRC = wrapper.cpp XKeyboard.cpp
++OBJS = ${SRC:.cpp=.o}
+ 
+-wrapper.o: wrapper.cpp XKeyboard.h
+-	g++ -c -Wall -O2 wrapper.cpp -o wrapper.o
++all: ${PROG}
+ 
+-xkblayout-state: XKeyboard.o wrapper.o
+-	g++ XKeyboard.o wrapper.o -lX11 -o xkblayout-state
++.cpp.o:
++	${CXX} -c ${CXXFLAGS} $<
++
++${PROG}: ${OBJS}
++	${CXX} -o $@ ${OBJS} ${LDFLAGS} -lX11
+ 
+ clean: 
+-	rm -f xkblayout-state XKeyboard.o wrapper.o
++	rm -f ${PROG} ${OBJS}
++
++dist:
++	tar cfa xkblayout-state-v1b.tar.gz Makefile README.md wrapper.cpp X11Exception.h XKeyboard.cpp XKeyboard.h
++
++install:
++	install -Dm755 ${PROG} ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/${PROG}
++
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xkblayout-state/template b/srcpkgs/xkblayout-state/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f44aa1795c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xkblayout-state/template
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Template file for 'xkblayout-state'
+pkgname=xkblayout-state
+version=1
+revision=1
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="https://github.com/nonpop/xkblayout-state"
+makedepends="libX11-devel"
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+short_desc="A small command-line program to get/set the current keyboard layout"
+maintainer="DirectorX <DirectorX@users.noreply.github.com>"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=16d2d8e4597dba7c185845fb2c7a603029f6c632438a2d771ce862b84c78cde5
+