diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b0094e8..53f9a10 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+lxqt-session (0.12.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * Added upstream pull requests for improved xdg handling (Closes: #883032).
+
+ -- Alf Gaida <agaida@siduction.org>  Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:50:55 +0100
+
 lxqt-session (0.12.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * Cherry-picking upstream release 0.12.0.
diff --git a/debian/patches/pr-114.patch b/debian/patches/pr-114.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..418e41e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/pr-114.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 3653bb1a1fcfd04da0d1c90dd588c0c067d72db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Palo Kisa <palo.kisa@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:06:48 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] startlxqt: Add /usr/share & /etc into XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
+
+---
+ CMakeLists.txt | 1 +
+ startlxqt.in   | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 3cd4112..b9fd3d1 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ if(NOT("${LXQT_DATA_DIR}" MATCHES "^/usr(/local)?/share$"))
+     set(PREDEF_XDG_DATA_DIRS "${PREDEF_XDG_DATA_DIRS}:${LXQT_DATA_DIR}")
+ endif()
+ set(PREDEF_XDG_DATA_DIRS "${PREDEF_XDG_DATA_DIRS}:/usr/local/share:/usr/share")
++set(PREDEF_XDG_CONFIG_DIRS "/etc:${LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR}:/usr/share")
+ configure_file(startlxqt.in startlxqt @ONLY)
+ install(PROGRAMS
+     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/startlxqt"
+diff --git a/startlxqt.in b/startlxqt.in
+index 02ef0c2..ae0569e 100755
+--- a/startlxqt.in
++++ b/startlxqt.in
+@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ fi
+ export XDG_DATA_DIRS
+ 
+ if [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" ]; then
+-    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="@LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR@"
++    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="@PREDEF_XDG_CONFIG_DIRS@"
+ else
+     if ! contains "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" '@LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR@'; then
+         XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:@LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR@"
+
diff --git a/debian/patches/pr-115.patch b/debian/patches/pr-115.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cbb9ae1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/pr-115.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From ca88cb247bd3856792daefcaf5a04bd0231c036b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alf Gaida <agaida@siduction.org>
+Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:24:41 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] install session configs in /usr/share/lxqt
+
+---
+ config/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/config/CMakeLists.txt b/config/CMakeLists.txt
+index caabdf2..4b12525 100644
+--- a/config/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/config/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ install(FILES
+     lxqt.conf
+     session.conf
+     windowmanagers.conf
+-    DESTINATION "${LXQT_ETC_XDG_DIR}/lxqt"
++    DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR}/lxqt"
+     COMPONENT Runtime
+ )
+ install(DIRECTORY openbox
+
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6edd1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pr-114.patch
+pr-115.patch