diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/budgie/budgie-gsettings-overrides/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/budgie/budgie-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9e2632b62f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/budgie/budgie-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+{ lib
+, runCommand
+, budgie-desktop
+, budgie-desktop-view
+, glib
+, gnome
+, gsettings-desktop-schemas
+, mate
+, nixos-artwork
+, nixos-background-light ? nixos-artwork.wallpapers.nineish
+, nixos-background-dark ? nixos-artwork.wallpapers.nineish-dark-gray
+, extraGSettingsOverrides ? ""
+, extraGSettingsOverridePackages ? []
+}:
+
+let
+  inherit (lib) concatMapStringsSep;
+
+  gsettingsOverrides = ''
+    [org.gnome.desktop.background:Budgie]
+    picture-uri="file://${nixos-background-light.gnomeFilePath}"
+    picture-uri-dark="file://${nixos-background-dark.gnomeFilePath}"
+
+    [org.gnome.desktop.screensaver:Budgie]
+    picture-uri="file://${nixos-background-dark.gnomeFilePath}"
+
+    [org.gnome.desktop.interface:Budgie]
+    gtk-theme="Qogir"
+    icon-theme="Qogir"
+    cursor-theme="Qogir"
+    font-name="Noto Sans 10"
+    document-font-name="Noto Sans 10"
+    monospace-font-name="Hack 10"
+    enable-hot-corners=true
+
+    [org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences:Budgie]
+    titlebar-font="Noto Sans Bold 10"
+
+    [org.gnome.mutter:Budgie]
+    workspaces-only-on-primary=true
+
+    [com.solus-project.budgie-panel:Budgie]
+    dark-theme=false
+    builtin-theme=false
+
+    [com.solus-project.icon-tasklist:Budgie]
+    pinned-launchers=["nemo.desktop", "vlc.desktop", "mate-terminal.desktop"]
+
+    [org.buddiesofbudgie.budgie-desktop-view:Budgie]
+    show=true
+    click-policy="double"
+    terminal="${mate.mate-terminal}/bin/mate-terminal"
+
+    ${extraGSettingsOverrides}
+  '';
+
+  gsettingsOverridePackages = [
+      budgie-desktop
+      budgie-desktop-view
+      gsettings-desktop-schemas
+      gnome.mutter
+  ] ++ extraGSettingsOverridePackages;
+
+in
+  runCommand "budgie-gsettings-overrides" { preferLocalBuild = true; } ''
+    data_dir="$out/share/gsettings-schemas/nixos-gsettings-overrides"
+    schema_dir="$data_dir/glib-2.0/schemas"
+    mkdir -p "$schema_dir"
+
+    ${concatMapStringsSep "\n" (pkg: "cp -rf \"${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}\"/*.xml \"${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}\"/*.gschema.override \"$schema_dir\"") gsettingsOverridePackages}
+
+    chmod -R a+w "$data_dir"
+    cat - > "$schema_dir/zz-nixos-defaults.gschema.override" <<- EOF
+    ${gsettingsOverrides}
+    EOF
+
+    ${glib.dev}/bin/glib-compile-schemas --strict "$schema_dir"
+  ''
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/budgie/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/budgie/default.nix
index 9d6ede5595b..24a461a1670 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/budgie/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/budgie/default.nix
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ lib.makeScope pkgs.newScope (self: with self; {
   budgie-control-center = callPackage ./budgie-control-center { };
   budgie-desktop = callPackage ./budgie-desktop { };
   budgie-desktop-view = callPackage ./budgie-desktop-view { };
+  budgie-gsettings-overrides = callPackage ./budgie-gsettings-overrides { };
   budgie-screensaver = callPackage ./budgie-screensaver { };
 })