diff --git a/lxqt-0.13.0-xdg-config-dir.patch b/lxqt-0.13.0-xdg-config-dir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb94460
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lxqt-0.13.0-xdg-config-dir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Added because of: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099800
+This patch was proposed by Simon Quigly and was declined by upstream.
+See discussion at: https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-session/pull/126/files
+
+From e76f0ebf14b2d54495b3fa27fe751b229b15f6d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>
+Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 22:57:21 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Ensure all paths are added to $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
+
+---
+ startlxqt.in | 8 +++++---
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/startlxqt.in b/startlxqt.in
+index ae0569e..58b2b25 100755
+--- a/startlxqt.in
++++ b/startlxqt.in
+@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ export XDG_DATA_DIRS
+ if [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" ]; then
+     export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="@PREDEF_XDG_CONFIG_DIRS@"
+ else
+-    if ! contains "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" '@LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR@'; then
+-        XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:@LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR@"
+-    fi
++    for directory in "/etc" "@LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR@" "/usr/share"; do
++        if ! contains "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" "$directory"; then
++            XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:$directory"
++        fi
++    done
+ fi
+ 
+ if [ -z "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" ]; then
diff --git a/lxqt-session.changes b/lxqt-session.changes
index af0be18..e15380f 100644
--- a/lxqt-session.changes
+++ b/lxqt-session.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 24 08:52:28 UTC 2018 - mvetter@suse.com
+
+- bsc#1099800: Various LXQt components weren't able to find
+  their config files
+- Add lxqt-0.13.0-xdg-config-dir.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 20 13:14:01 UTC 2018 - mvetter@suse.com
 
diff --git a/lxqt-session.spec b/lxqt-session.spec
index 277896a..ce38c2f 100644
--- a/lxqt-session.spec
+++ b/lxqt-session.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ URL:            http://www.lxqt.org
 Source:         https://github.com/lxde/%{name}/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        https://github.com/lxde/%{name}/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz.asc
 Source2:        %{name}.keyring
+# FIX-OPENSUSE mvetter@suse.com bsc#1099800
+Patch0:         lxqt-0.13.0-xdg-config-dir.patch
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 3.0.2
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -53,6 +55,7 @@ use when a user logs out and to restart them the next time the user logs in.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 # Changing LXQt into X-LXQt in desktop files to be freedesktop compliant and shut rpmlint warnings
 #find -name '*desktop.in*' -exec sed -ri 's/(LXQt;)/X-\1/' {} +