diff --git a/src/applets/menu.c b/src/applets/menu.c
index 6f2aaad..8ed12ba 100644
--- a/src/applets/menu.c
+++ b/src/applets/menu.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static void _menu_xdg_dirs(Menu * menu, void (*callback)(Menu * menu,
 	/* read through every XDG application folder */
 	if((path = getenv("XDG_DATA_DIRS")) == NULL || strlen(path) == 0)
 	{
-		path = "/usr/local/share:/usr/share";
+		path = "/usr/local/share:" DATADIR ":/usr/share";
 		datadir = 0;
 	}
 	if((p = strdup(path)) == NULL)