diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-perl/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-perl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dfcdeaa9d4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-perl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, wmctrl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "urxvt-perl-2015-01-16";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "effigies";
+    repo = "urxvt-perl";
+    rev = "c3beb9ff09a7139591416c61f8e9458c8a23bea5";
+    sha256 = "1w1p8ng7bwq5hnaprjl1zf073y5l3hdsj7sz7cll6isjswcm6r0s";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    substituteInPlace fullscreen \
+      --replace "wmctrl" "${wmctrl}/bin/wmctrl"
+
+    mkdir -p $out/lib/urxvt/perl
+    cp fullscreen $out/lib/urxvt/perl
+    cp newterm $out/lib/urxvt/perl
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Perl extensions for the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/effigies/urxvt-perl";
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ cstrahan ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f50c6831693..0147cefc0fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12469,12 +12469,13 @@ let
   };
 
   # urxvt plugins
+  urxvt_perl = callPackage ../applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-perl { };
   urxvt_perls = callPackage ../applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-perls { };
   urxvt_tabbedex = callPackage ../applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-tabbedex { };
   urxvt_font_size = callPackage ../applications/misc/rxvt_unicode-plugins/urxvt-font-size { };
 
   rxvt_unicode-with-plugins = callPackage ../applications/misc/rxvt_unicode/wrapper.nix {
-    plugins = [ urxvt_perls urxvt_tabbedex urxvt_font_size ];
+    plugins = [ urxvt_perl urxvt_perls urxvt_tabbedex urxvt_font_size ];
   };
 
   # FIXME: remove somewhere in future