diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
index 73db70880f1..0945b4e4570 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/configurable.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 , features          ? "huge" # One of tiny, small, normal, big or huge
 , wrapPythonDrv     ? false
-, guiSupport        ? config.vim.gui or "auto"
+, guiSupport        ? config.vim.gui or "gtk3"
 , luaSupport        ? config.vim.lua or true
 , perlSupport       ? config.vim.perl or false      # Perl interpreter
 , pythonSupport     ? config.vim.python or true     # Python interpreter
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 99e2fb9cf97..59c4ed9d6ba 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9682,6 +9682,11 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) AppKit Cocoa;
   };
 
+  # On darwin gtk uses cocoa by default instead of x11.
+  gtk3-x11 = gtk3.override {
+    x11Support = true;
+  };
+
   gtkmm2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/gtkmm/2.x.nix { };
   gtkmm3 = callPackage ../development/libraries/gtkmm/3.x.nix { };
 
@@ -18837,7 +18842,7 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) CoreServices Cocoa Foundation CoreData;
     inherit (darwin) libobjc cf-private;
     gtk2 = if stdenv.isDarwin then gtk2-x11 else gtk2;
-    guiSupport = if stdenv.isDarwin then "gtk2" else "gtk3";
+    gtk3 = if stdenv.isDarwin then gtk3-x11 else gtk3;
   });
 
   qpdfview = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/qpdfview {};