diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7f2e260e5df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+{ stdenv
+, runCommand
+, nixos-artwork
+, glib
+, gtk3
+, gsettings-desktop-schemas
+, extraGSettingsOverrides ? ""
+, extraGSettingsOverridePackages ? []
+, mint-artwork
+
+, muffin
+, nemo
+, xapps
+, cinnamon-desktop
+, cinnamon-session
+, cinnamon-settings-daemon
+, cinnamon-common
+}:
+
+let
+
+  gsettingsOverridePackages = [
+    # from
+    mint-artwork
+
+    # on
+    muffin
+    nemo
+    xapps
+    cinnamon-desktop
+    cinnamon-session
+    cinnamon-settings-daemon
+    cinnamon-common
+    gtk3
+  ] ++ extraGSettingsOverridePackages;
+
+in
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+# TODO: Having https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/54150 would supersede this
+runCommand "cinnamon-gsettings-overrides" {}
+  ''
+     schema_dir=$out/share/gsettings-schemas/nixos-gsettings-overrides/glib-2.0/schemas
+
+     mkdir -p $schema_dir
+
+     ${concatMapStrings (pkg: "cp -rf ${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}/*.xml ${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}/*.gschema.override $schema_dir\n") gsettingsOverridePackages}
+
+     chmod -R a+w $out/share/gsettings-schemas/nixos-gsettings-overrides
+
+     cat - > $schema_dir/nixos-defaults.gschema.override <<- EOF
+     ${extraGSettingsOverrides}
+     EOF
+
+     ${glib.dev}/bin/glib-compile-schemas $schema_dir
+  ''
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/default.nix
index cc748959767..e406da2b8e5 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ lib.makeScope pkgs.newScope (self: with self; {
   cinnamon-common = callPackage ./cinnamon-common { };
   cinnamon-control-center = callPackage ./cinnamon-control-center { };
   cinnamon-desktop = callPackage ./cinnamon-desktop { };
+  cinnamon-gsettings-overrides = callPackage ./cinnamon-gsettings-overrides { };
   cinnamon-menus = callPackage ./cinnamon-menus { };
   cinnamon-translations = callPackage ./cinnamon-translations { };
   cinnamon-screensaver = callPackage ./cinnamon-screensaver { };