diff --git a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest
index a5e0b395ac..6ccb4ab8c4 100644
--- a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest
+++ b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST nwg-shell-0.5.38.tar.gz 2181241 BLAKE2B 82b6df94cffa324450fb44ab4c9a92dfc3c8bc06d595ff966ee2d6c626215ed87dd1836dc7570af83695aee42a111ddedaa68276b0028c32dccaf9c0becae79c SHA512 b1481c9350cea9c8b51a758e09dff96158eb66e60045866c961b212038ba14f100c1c2547a508df949421b8201ad44c0b4ad2aa4e18d3b751d39a52b561dbe29
 DIST nwg-shell-0.5.39.tar.gz 2181588 BLAKE2B 6ecf866f485aa52dcd58e4655bbc17d2fb542514e53e04684afafd2d3285cec9cd6662de83346cfe3ffabbe54f90f1c8ebd1c718c71a37d704f18b8fcbf898cd SHA512 47a62f18f08cd22f4373cf9d5ef0b8e5df36db43ca767220e50944fc04e2567de054ffbce18ce7af6a16c0af1f40349cddbe7b9bbbfe268d07ea82084b1d309b
+DIST nwg-shell-0.5.40.tar.gz 2181505 BLAKE2B 8dd2b124c877ec3f8d93264cb6f09cf1b8e8bedd2f54f40380b604f9a6afcd0e1ef0c6204d3038cf603a0113cae6282263d0fc977de5490040b21a5fec41011c SHA512 7706c774fdfeb6391c5b203bc7ff8a5cca94707a6a401487f069a00067d4ead141ca9c3cfadd56ae58fba8770046cea5a3f3b8af5ac20140858c18f1ab1a3724
diff --git a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.40.ebuild b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.40.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b2a4685570
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.40.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..12} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="libraries an common functions for the nwg-shell project"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	gui-apps/grim
+	gui-apps/swappy
+	gui-apps/slurp
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+python_install_all() {
+	default
+	dobin scripts/*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "To install nwg-shell for the current user, run"
+	elog "nwg-shell-installer -w (for sway) or"
+	elog "nwg-shell-installer -w -hypr (for hyprland)"
+}