diff --git a/gui-apps/swaync/swaync-0.4.ebuild b/gui-apps/swaync/swaync-0.4.ebuild
index 5adf03b791..33def77421 100644
--- a/gui-apps/swaync/swaync-0.4.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/swaync/swaync-0.4.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ DEPEND="
 	gui-libs/gtk-layer-shell
 	gui-libs/libhandy
 	sys-apps/dbus
-	x11-libs/gtk+
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3
 "
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="