diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
index d706bae0ae6..831743a0522 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, xz, cmake, gperf, imagemagick, pkgconfig, lua
 , glib, cairo, pango, imlib2, libxcb, libxdg_basedir, xcbutil
 , libstartup_notification, libev, asciidoc, xmlto, dbus, docbook_xsl
-, docbook_xml_dtd_45, libxslt}:
+, docbook_xml_dtd_45, libxslt, coreutils}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "awesome-3.4.4";
@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     imlib2 libxcb libxdg_basedir xcbutil libstartup_notification libev
     asciidoc xmlto dbus docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_45 libxslt ];
 
+  # We use coreutils for 'env', that will allow then finding 'bash' or 'zsh' in
+  # the awesome lua code. I prefered that instead of adding 'bash' or 'zsh' as
+  # dependencies.
+  patchPhase = ''
+    # Fix the tab completion (supporting bash or zsh)
+    sed s,/usr/bin/env,${coreutils}/bin/env, -i lib/awful/completion.lua.in
+    # Remove the 'root' PATH override (I don't know why they have that)
+    sed /WHOAMI/d -i utils/awsetbg
+  '';
+
   # Somehow libev does not get into the rpath, although it should.
   # Something may be wrong in the gcc wrapper.
   preBuild = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 86a6ed81d9f..e3c60550705 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7075,7 +7075,7 @@ let
   awesome = import ../applications/window-managers/awesome {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv xz cmake gperf imagemagick pkgconfig imlib2 libxdg_basedir
       libstartup_notification libev asciidoc libxslt xmlto dbus docbook_xsl
-      docbook_xml_dtd_45;
+      docbook_xml_dtd_45 coreutils;
     inherit (gtkLibs) glib pango;
     inherit (xorg) libxcb xcbutil;
     lua = lua5;