diff --git a/xfce4-session-logout-de.diff b/xfce4-session-logout-de.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfc89f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xfce4-session-logout-de.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From d23fbb801f07a915c1e9b33555614fa93f30c469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@xfce.org>
+Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:34:41 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] it.po typo
+
+(Old svn revision: 29952)
+
+---
+ po/ChangeLog |    4 ++++
+ po/de.po     |    4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/po/ChangeLog
++++ b/po/ChangeLog
+@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
++2009-05-12  Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@xfce.org>
++
++	* de.po: Fix typo (bug #5279)
++
+ 2009-04-08	Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org>
+ 
+ 	* de.po: Update German translations (Fabian Nowak).
+--- a/po/de.po
++++ b/po/de.po
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ msgstr ""
+ "Project-Id-Version: xfce4-session 4.4.0\n"
+ "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+ "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-12-26 20:57-0800\n"
+-"PO-Revision-Date: 2009-04-09 12:12+0200\n"
++"PO-Revision-Date: 2009-05-12 11:32+0200\n"
+ "Last-Translator: Fabian Nowak <timystery@arcor.de>\n"
+ "Language-Team: German <de@li.org>\n"
+ "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ msgstr "Sitzungsverwaltung"
+ #: ../xfce4-session/shutdown.c:360
+ #, c-format
+ msgid "<span size='large'><b>Log out %s</b></span>"
+-msgstr "<span·size='large'><b>%s abmelden</b></span>"
++msgstr "<span size='large'><b>%s abmelden</b></span>"
+ 
+ #: ../xfce4-session/shutdown.c:401
+ msgid "Log Out"
diff --git a/xfce4-session.changes b/xfce4-session.changes
index 48c40ed..a56234d 100644
--- a/xfce4-session.changes
+++ b/xfce4-session.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 13 11:54:26 UTC 2010 - bernhard@bwalle.de
+
+- Fix invalid character in the logout dialog in the German
+  translation which lead Gtk to not interpret the markup. Instead,
+  the raw markup code was displayed.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Mar 18 09:23:36 UTC 2010 - prusnak@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/xfce4-session.spec b/xfce4-session.spec
index cc795cb..771f82b 100644
--- a/xfce4-session.spec
+++ b/xfce4-session.spec
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@
 Name:           xfce4-session
 Summary:        Xfce Session manager
 Version:        4.6.1
-Release:        3
+Release:        4
 License:        GPLv2+
 Url:            http://www.xfce.org/
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch0:         %{name}-tips-no-fortune.patch
+Patch1:         %{name}-logout-de.diff
 Group:          System/GUI/XFCE
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  libwnck-devel libxfce4util-devel libxfcegui4-devel
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ Authors:
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0
+%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure \