diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a884e533..ae263851 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ wayland_protocols = dependency('wayland-protocols', version: '>=1.41',
                                default_options: ['tests=false'])
 wayland_client = dependency('wayland-client')
 wayland_cursor = dependency('wayland-cursor')
-xkb = dependency('xkbcommon', version: '>=1.8.0')
+xkb = dependency('xkbcommon', version: '>=1.0.0')
 fontconfig = dependency('fontconfig')
 utf8proc = dependency('libutf8proc', required: get_option('grapheme-clustering'))