diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dc6b79fd0..5842de165 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-07-17  Sven Herzberg  <herzi@gnome-de.org>
+
+	* configure.in: use pkg-config to check for xcursor
+
 2005-07-13  Sebastien Bacher  <seb128@debian.org>
 
 	* configure.in: update to 2.11.7.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 50b2d5285..d8e92f7d1 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -151,11 +151,15 @@ dnl Check for XCursor support.  If it exists, then we compile the
 dnl mouse capplet with support for it turned on
 dnl
 have_xcursor=no
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(X11/Xcursor/Xcursor.h, have_xcursor=yes
-				       AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XCURSOR, 1, Have the Xcursor extension),
-				       :, [#include <X11/Xlib.h>])
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XCURSOR, [
+	xcursor
+	],
+	have_xcursor=yes
+	AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XCURSOR, 1, Have the Xcursor extension))
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_XCURSOR, [test $have_xcursor=yes])
 
+CAPPLET_LIBS="$CAPPLET_LIBS $XCURSOR_LIBS"
+
 dnl
 dnl Check for gtk+ with multihead support
 dnl