diff --git a/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix b/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix
index 9b1699de0cc..06c71b2b7ac 100644
--- a/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
   phreedom = "Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom@yandex.ru>";
   pierron = "Nicolas B. Pierron <nixos@nbp.name>";
   piotr = "Piotr Pietraszkiewicz <ppietrasa@gmail.com>";
+  pSub = "Pascal Wittmann <mail@pascal-wittmann.de>";
   qknight = "Joachim Schiele <js@lastlog.de>";
   raskin = "Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>";
   rickynils = "Rickard Nilsson <rickynils@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3fff2bc50b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, libXinerama, imlib2}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  name = "bgs-${version}";
+  version = "0.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "67fe16e3483f30f940005856fbb3246e1f99cf58371470e0d6668a27acbaefb9";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ libX11 libXinerama imlib2 ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''sed -i "s@PREFIX = /usr/local@PREFIX = $out@g" config.mk'';
+
+  meta = { 
+      description = "bgs is an extremely fast and small background setter for X.";
+      license = "MIT";
+      platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; all;
+      maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [pSub]; 
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9ecca10e790..ef64fd57882 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -574,6 +574,8 @@ let
 
   bacula = callPackage ../tools/backup/bacula { };
 
+  bgs = callPackage ../tools/X11/bgs { };
+  
   bibtextools = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/bibtex-tools {
     inherit (strategoPackages016) strategoxt sdf;
   };