diff --git a/config/redbear-full.toml b/config/redbear-full.toml
index f0778b5add..c61ea24058 100644
--- a/config/redbear-full.toml
+++ b/config/redbear-full.toml
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ libxfixes = {}
 libxi = {}
 libxrender = {}
 libxft = {}
+xcb-util = {}
+xcb-util-image = {}
 # libice/libsm deliberately NOT included: they are X11 session-management
 # libraries used only by ksmserver, which is inside if(WITH_X11) and is not
 # built. They also need xorg util-macros, which is in no recipe here -- so
diff --git a/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml b/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml
index 99f1fbb74c..39ff3f7f2b 100644
--- a/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml
+++ b/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ path = "source"
 [build]
 template = "custom"
 dependencies = [
+    # XCB with SHM and IMAGE components: CMakeLists.txt:223
+    # find_package(XCB REQUIRED COMPONENTS XCB SHM IMAGE). libxcb supplies
+    # xcb and xcb-shm; IMAGE comes from xcb-util-image (which needs xcb-util).
+    # Needed even on Wayland -- KDE's XWayland integration and Qt's xcb
+    # platform plugin both reference it.
+    "libxcb",
+    "xcb-util",
+    "xcb-util-image",
     "plasma-workspace",
     "qtbase",
     "qtdeclarative",
diff --git a/recipes/wip/x11/xcb-util-image/recipe.toml b/recipes/x11/xcb-util-image/recipe.toml
similarity index 100%
rename from recipes/wip/x11/xcb-util-image/recipe.toml
rename to recipes/x11/xcb-util-image/recipe.toml
diff --git a/recipes/wip/x11/xcb-util/recipe.toml b/recipes/x11/xcb-util/recipe.toml
similarity index 100%
rename from recipes/wip/x11/xcb-util/recipe.toml
rename to recipes/x11/xcb-util/recipe.toml