diff --git a/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/APKBUILD
index fe48a3228..6c67abb28 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Bart Ribbers <bribbers@disroot.org>
 pkgname=postmarketos-ui-weston
 pkgver=4
-pkgrel=14
+pkgrel=15
 pkgdesc="(Wayland) Reference compositor (demo, not a phone interface)"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
 arch="noarch"
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ package() {
 	install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/weston.ini.default \
 		"$pkgdir"/etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini.default
 }
-sha512sums="39166e8128f6fbdceb9b60ac6491bffaa620875ebe807bf2c20e4a837428ee6fbc6a758f31e536df635c1cf5ce2c9b803af5c82c52dc0198247844a1b9a46e5e  start_weston.sh
+sha512sums="02cb16254fa6bff405bd19448daeb1b4c2ac1fa696b6f7d67ea89795e4480ed1a9b5487dc00fc671d31d175fc8b8e509071b53dba879519a69d54648a076a549  start_weston.sh
 b712c9d4c846437656781656ec15e9b7e238a9244e0b77bf84b67f6661d44f68718330706f69ccb8b4d7f6182b8f17f273018ca461c0c40e49b9185f6eec168d  weston.ini.default
 6800b81055c854ef69c0084341e31841d4b06d1d894542f1e125d0d70b6606f11218bda0d29dab9a48594b4c2f815a540f91bfba6c2c22c3378040c41fe4bbb1  60-lightdm-autologin.conf"
diff --git a/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/start_weston.sh b/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/start_weston.sh
index 2e07fffcf..e245cca7b 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/start_weston.sh
+++ b/main/postmarketos-ui-weston/start_weston.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ cfg="/etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini"
 [ -e "$cfg" ] || cfg="$cfg.default"
 WESTON_OPTS="--config=$cfg"
 
+# Start dbus and export its environment variables
+eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
+
 # #633: Weston doesn't support autostarting applications (yet), so
 # we try to run postmarketos-demos for 10 seconds, until it succeeds.
 (