diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session/dont-check-for-have-xtrans.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session/dont-check-for-have-xtrans.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80dad91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session/dont-check-for-have-xtrans.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+From 1ece66e683258a0bfa044d074becfe207d04a748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:19:44 -0400
+Subject: xsmp: don't check for HAVE_XTRANS
+
+It's not set anymore since the meson switch.
+Instead require the xtrans.pc file to be around.
+
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794575
+---
+ gnome-session/gsm-xsmp-server.c | 6 ------
+ meson.build                     | 2 ++
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/gnome-session/gsm-xsmp-server.c b/gnome-session/gsm-xsmp-server.c
+index 1460a28..d558f9b 100644
+--- a/gnome-session/gsm-xsmp-server.c
++++ b/gnome-session/gsm-xsmp-server.c
+@@ -39,14 +39,12 @@
+ #include <X11/ICE/ICEconn.h>
+ #include <X11/SM/SMlib.h>
+ 
+-#if HAVE_XTRANS
+ /* Get the proto for _IceTransNoListen */
+ #define ICE_t
+ #define TRANS_SERVER
+ #include <X11/Xtrans/Xtrans.h>
+ #undef  ICE_t
+ #undef TRANS_SERVER
+-#endif /* HAVE_XTRANS */
+ 
+ #include "gsm-xsmp-server.h"
+ #include "gsm-xsmp-client.h"
+@@ -582,7 +580,6 @@ setup_listener (GsmXsmpServer *server)
+                 gsm_util_init_error (TRUE, "Could not initialize libSM: %s", error);
+         }
+ 
+-#if HAVE_XTRANS
+         /* By default, IceListenForConnections will open one socket for each
+          * transport type known to X. We don't want connections from remote
+          * hosts, so for security reasons it would be best if ICE didn't
+@@ -592,7 +589,6 @@ setup_listener (GsmXsmpServer *server)
+          * guess.
+          */
+         _IceTransNoListen ("tcp");
+-#endif
+ 
+         /* Create the XSMP socket. Older versions of IceListenForConnections
+          * have a bug which causes the umask to be set to 0 on certain types
+@@ -634,7 +630,6 @@ setup_listener (GsmXsmpServer *server)
+                 gsm_util_init_error (TRUE, "IceListenForConnections did not return a local listener!");
+         }
+ 
+-#ifdef HAVE_XTRANS
+         if (server->priv->num_local_xsmp_sockets != server->priv->num_xsmp_sockets) {
+                 /* Xtrans was apparently compiled with support for some
+                  * non-local transport besides TCP (which we disabled above); we
+@@ -653,7 +648,6 @@ setup_listener (GsmXsmpServer *server)
+                            network_id_list);
+                 free (network_id_list);
+         }
+-#endif
+ 
+         /* Update .ICEauthority with new auth entries for our socket */
+         if (!update_iceauthority (server, TRUE)) {
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 9eb36a4..6f6d051 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ glib_req_version = '>= 2.46.0'
+ gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version: glib_req_version)
+ glib_dep = dependency('glib-2.0', version: glib_req_version)
+ gtk_dep = dependency('gtk+-3.0', version: '>= 3.18.0')
++xtrans_dep = dependency('xtrans')
+ ice_dep = dependency('ice')
+ sm_dep = dependency('sm')
+ x11_dep = dependency('x11')
+@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ session_deps = [
+ ]
+ 
+ session_bin_deps = session_deps + [
++  xtrans_dep,
+   ice_dep,
+   sm_dep
+ ]
+-- 
+cgit v0.12
+
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session_3.27.92.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session_3.27.92.bb
index 9544018..bad0270 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session_3.27.92.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-session/gnome-session_3.27.92.bb
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ require gnome-session.inc
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "ceed281645d1f98768de957dc8e79ee6"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "2e935ae2cacca2e1a7bff22bbe799797c74f79a33261093ceb3fd514b39bd14d"
 
+# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794757
+SRC_URI += "file://dont-check-for-have-xtrans.patch"
+
 EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Denable-docbook=false -Denable-man=false"
 inherit meson