diff --git a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/xcb-util-xrm.nix b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/xcb-util-xrm.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9eb8add6856
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/xcb-util-xrm.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, m4, libxcb, xcbutil, libX11 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.0";
+  name = "xcb-util-xrm-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm/releases/download/v${version}/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1h5vxwpd37dqfw9yj1l4zd9c5dj30r3g0szgysr6kd7xrqgaq04l";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig m4 libxcb xcbutil ]
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optional doCheck [ libX11 ];
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "XCB utility functions for the X resource manager";
+    homepage = https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm;
+    license = licenses.mit; # X11 variant
+    platforms = with platforms; unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c0c95a56c03..224558f8774 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9755,6 +9755,8 @@ in
   xcb-util-cursor = xorg.xcbutilcursor;
   xcb-util-cursor-HEAD = callPackage ../development/libraries/xcb-util-cursor/HEAD.nix { };
 
+  xcbutilxrm = callPackage ../servers/x11/xorg/xcb-util-xrm.nix { };
+
   xdo = callPackage ../tools/misc/xdo { };
 
   xineLib = callPackage ../development/libraries/xine-lib {