diff --git a/community/gnome-settings-daemon/APKBUILD b/community/gnome-settings-daemon/APKBUILD
index ee8e9dfe708..2372dd07d4d 100644
--- a/community/gnome-settings-daemon/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/gnome-settings-daemon/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="GNOME settings daemon"
 url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon"
 # s390x and riscv64 blocked by polkit -> upower
 arch="all !s390x !riscv64"
-options="!check" # needs unpackaged py-dbusmock
+options="!check" # tests fail in builders
 license="GPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-only"
 depends_dev="
 	alsa-lib-dev
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ makedepends="
 	libxml2-utils
 	meson
 	"
-checkdepends="py3-gobject3"
+checkdepends="py3-gobject3 py3-dbusmock umockdev-dev gnome-session gnome-shell"
 depends="pulseaudio"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-lang"
 source="https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/${pkgver%.*}/gnome-settings-daemon-$pkgver.tar.xz
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ build() {
 	meson compile ${JOBS:+-j ${JOBS}} -C output
 }
 
+check() {
+	meson test --no-rebuild -v -C output
+}
+
 package() {
 	DESTDIR="$pkgdir" meson install --no-rebuild -C output
 }