diff --git a/system/lirc/gi.patch b/system/lirc/gi.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..63e966eeae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/lirc/gi.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/tools/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py b/tools/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py
+index 9d0548a..16395f6 100644
+--- a/tools/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py
++++ b/tools/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py
+@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+ ''' Simple lirc setup tool - control part. '''
+ 
++import gi
++gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
++
+ from gi.repository import Gtk         # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
+ 
+ import os
diff --git a/system/lirc/lirc.SlackBuild b/system/lirc/lirc.SlackBuild
index 7a3be22a7a..eca6bc1474 100644
--- a/system/lirc/lirc.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/lirc/lirc.SlackBuild
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=lirc
 VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.3a}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-4}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-5}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
 # Patch to fix config.status warning for lirc-driver.pc.in ignoring --datarootdir
 patch -p1 < $CWD/datarootdir.patch
 
+# Patch to fix lirc-setup to force gtk3
+# Thanks to Martin Schmidt for the heads up and the patch
+patch -p1 < $CWD/gi.patch
+
 # 20220211 bkw: Fix for PyYAML >= 5.1
 sed -i \
   's|yaml.load(f.read())|yaml.load(f.read(), Loader=yaml.FullLoader)|' \