diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
index f8e4e16655a..4173660f542 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
 { fetchurl, stdenv, which, pkgconfig, libxcb, xcbutilkeysyms, xcbutil,
   xcbutilwm, libstartup_notification, libX11, pcre, libev, yajl,
-  libXcursor, coreutils, perl }:
+  libXcursor, coreutils, perl, pango }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "i3-${version}";
-  version = "4.5";
+  version = "4.5.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://i3wm.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1kiffcbvvjljqchw9ffgy9s8f9z06i8805jvjas58q5i2yxl5kcy";
+    sha256 = "bae55f1c7c4a21d71aae182e4fab6038ba65ba4be5d1ceff9e269f4f74b823f2";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ which pkgconfig libxcb xcbutilkeysyms xcbutil xcbutilwm
-    libstartup_notification libX11 pcre libev yajl libXcursor perl ];
+    libstartup_notification libX11 pcre libev yajl libXcursor perl pango ];
 
   patchPhase = ''
-    sed -i -e '/^# Pango/,/^$/d' common.mk
     patchShebangs .
   '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0d3e4cca9a2..a1c0d4bc72e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7224,7 +7224,9 @@ let
 
   hydrogen = callPackage ../applications/audio/hydrogen { };
 
-  i3 = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/i3 { };
+  i3 = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/i3 {
+    cairo = cairo.override { xcbSupport = true; };
+  };
 
   i3lock = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/i3/lock.nix {
     cairo = cairo.override { xcbSupport = true; };