diff --git a/plugins/color/meson.build b/plugins/color/meson.build
index b454bbb1fb3676b3484ff2c6953e334526d0756d..bb05f72ff82c30fe988dabbcd8987e51bc159ad8 100644
--- a/plugins/color/meson.build
+++ b/plugins/color/meson.build
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ deps = plugins_deps + [
   libcanberra_gtk_dep,
   libgeoclue_dep,
   libnotify_dep,
+  libcommon_dep,
   m_dep,
 ]
 
diff --git a/plugins/common/daemon-skeleton-gtk.h b/plugins/common/daemon-skeleton-gtk.h
index 4e67706ed777ce5fe8b04958755c4c4ef2fe6eda..1b73390e8f1a460eb7da3d61ec85842143f878a5 100644
--- a/plugins/common/daemon-skeleton-gtk.h
+++ b/plugins/common/daemon-skeleton-gtk.h
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 #include "gnome-settings-bus.h"
 
+#include "gsd-resources.h"
+
 #ifndef PLUGIN_NAME
 #error Include PLUGIN_CFLAGS in the daemon s CFLAGS
 #endif /* !PLUGIN_NAME */
@@ -219,6 +221,9 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
         textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
         setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 
+	/* Ensure we don't lose resources during linkage */
+	g_resources_register (gsd_get_resource ());
+
         set_empty_gtk_theme (TRUE);
 
 #ifdef GDK_BACKEND