diff --git a/gnu/packages/wm.scm b/gnu/packages/wm.scm
index b40588cb9bb..b3de9414c6b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/wm.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/wm.scm
@@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@ narrow the items to those matching the tokens in the input.")
                   pcre2
                   swaybg
                   wayland
-                  wlroots))
+                  wlroots-0.18))
     (native-inputs
      (cons* linux-pam mesa pkg-config scdoc wayland-protocols
             (if (%current-target-system)