diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/default.nix
index e4d0c82c4176..f83c5fc7f01f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, libXinerama, libXft, zlib, patches ? [ ./xim.patch ] }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, libXinerama, libXft, zlib, patches ? null }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "dmenu-4.9";
+  name = "dmenu-5.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://dl.suckless.org/tools/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0ia9nqr83bv6x247q30bal0v42chcj9qcjgv59xs6xj46m7iz5xk";
+    sha256 = "1lvfxzg3chsgcqbc2vr0zic7vimijgmbvnspayx73kyvqi1f267y";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ libX11 libXinerama zlib libXft ];
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/xim.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/xim.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f77d48324da4..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu/xim.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-Revert https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/commit/377bd37e212b1ec4c03a481245603c6560d0be22.html
-
-Upstream has reverted it after v4.9 in https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/commit/db6093f6ec1bb884f7540f2512935b5254750b30.html
---- a/dmenu.c
-+++ b/dmenu.c
-@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ run(void)
- 	XEvent ev;
- 
- 	while (!XNextEvent(dpy, &ev)) {
--		if (XFilterEvent(&ev, None))
-+		if (XFilterEvent(&ev, win))
- 			continue;
- 		switch(ev.type) {
- 		case Expose:
-@@ -664,7 +664,6 @@ setup(void)
- 	                XNClientWindow, win, XNFocusWindow, win, NULL);
- 
- 	XMapRaised(dpy, win);
--	XSetInputFocus(dpy, win, RevertToParent, CurrentTime);
- 	if (embed) {
- 		XSelectInput(dpy, parentwin, FocusChangeMask);
- 		if (XQueryTree(dpy, parentwin, &dw, &w, &dws, &du) && dws) {
-@@ -730,8 +729,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
- 
- 	if (!setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") || !XSupportsLocale())
- 		fputs("warning: no locale support\n", stderr);
--	if (!XSetLocaleModifiers(""))
--		fputs("warning: no locale modifiers support\n", stderr);
- 	if (!(dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL)))
- 		die("cannot open display");
- 	screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);