diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
index 2b3c51a7340f..1798c8235d05 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, substituteAll, swaybg
 , meson, ninja, pkg-config, wayland, scdoc
 , libxkbcommon, pcre, json_c, dbus, libevdev
 , pango, cairo, libinput, libcap, pam, gdk-pixbuf, librsvg
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   patches = [
     ./sway-config-no-nix-store-references.patch
     ./load-configuration-from-etc.patch
+
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./fix-paths.patch;
+      inherit swaybg;
+    })
   ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/fix-paths.patch b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/fix-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c52f65b146b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/fix-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/sway/config.c
++++ b/sway/config.c
+@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
+ 
+ 	if (!(config->active_bar_modifiers = create_list())) goto cleanup;
+ 
+-	if (!(config->swaybg_command = strdup("swaybg"))) goto cleanup;
++	if (!(config->swaybg_command = strdup("@swaybg@/bin/swaybg"))) goto cleanup;
+ 
+ 	if (!(config->config_chain = create_list())) goto cleanup;
+ 	config->current_config_path = NULL;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/wrapper.nix
index fe78e1a9ff96..0a80ce70e032 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/wrapper.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { lib, stdenv
-, sway-unwrapped, swaybg
+, sway-unwrapped
 , makeWrapper, symlinkJoin, writeShellScriptBin
 , withBaseWrapper ? true, extraSessionCommands ? "", dbus
 , withGtkWrapper ? false, wrapGAppsHook, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gtk3
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ in symlinkJoin {
     ${optionalString withGtkWrapper "gappsWrapperArgsHook"}
 
     wrapProgram $out/bin/sway \
-      --prefix PATH : "${swaybg}/bin" \
       ${optionalString withGtkWrapper ''"''${gappsWrapperArgs[@]}"''} \
       ${optionalString (extraOptions != []) "${concatMapStrings (x: " --add-flags " + x) extraOptions}"}
   '';