diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/pamixer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/pamixer/default.nix
index 3e159c84384..322a4e23846 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/pamixer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/pamixer/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, boost, libpulseaudio }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, boost, libpulseaudio }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-
   name = "pamixer-${version}";
   version = "1.3.1";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/cdemoulins/pamixer/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1lsvb4xk1dq762w9c0jn7xvj3v1lzppql9mj1b55fhzdypbrkm6x";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "cdemoulins";
+    repo = "pamixer";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "15zs2x4hnrpxphqn542b6qqm4ymvhkvbcfyffy69d6cki51chzzw";
   };
 
+  # Remove after https://github.com/cdemoulins/pamixer/pull/16 gets fixed
+  patches = [(fetchpatch {
+    url = "https://github.com/oxij/pamixer/commit/dea1cd967aa837940e5c0b04ef7ebc47a7a93d63.patch";
+    sha256 = "0s77xmsiwywyyp6f4bjxg1sqdgms1k5fiy7na6ws0aswshfnzfjb";
+  })];
+
   buildInputs = [ boost libpulseaudio ];
 
   installPhase = ''