diff --git a/x11/slim/Makefile b/x11/slim/Makefile
index b66bb7daa7d8..7fbfcfdb14aa 100644
--- a/x11/slim/Makefile
+++ b/x11/slim/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 PORTNAME=	slim
 PORTVERSION=	1.3.6
-PORTREVISION=	17
+PORTREVISION=	18
 CATEGORIES=	x11
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/slim/ \
 		SF/slim.berlios
@@ -23,16 +23,18 @@ USE_XORG=	ice sm x11 xau xcb xdmcp xext xft xmu xorg-server xrandr \
 		xrender xt
 USE_RC_SUBR=	slim
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
+
 SUB_FILES=	pkg-message
 
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DUSE_CONSOLEKIT=yes \
 		-DBUILD_SLIMLOCK=no \
 		-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes
 
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=		PAM UTF8 CONSOLEKIT
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	PAM UTF8 CONSOLEKIT
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=		XDEFAULT PAM UTF8 CONSOLEKIT
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	XDEFAULT PAM UTF8 CONSOLEKIT
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
+XDEFAULT_DESC=Allow to set a default xsession in .xinitrc
 UTF8_DESC=	Support UTF-8 characters
 CONSOLEKIT_DESC=Enable support for consolekit
 
@@ -41,6 +43,9 @@ PLIST_SUB+=	VERSION="${PORTVERSION}"
 PAM_CMAKE_ON=	-DUSE_PAM=yes
 PAM_CMAKE_OFF=	-DUSE_PAM=no
 
+# patch taken from https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim/pull/1
+XDEFAULT_EXTRA_PATCHES+=  ${PATCHDIR}/extra-patch-xdefault
+
 # patch taken from slim-unicode in Arch User Repository
 UTF8_EXTRA_PATCHES+=	${PATCHDIR}/extra-patch-utf8
 
diff --git a/x11/slim/distinfo b/x11/slim/distinfo
index f0ce7cf132f1..3b9233ca8128 100644
--- a/x11/slim/distinfo
+++ b/x11/slim/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1555924312
 SHA256 (slim-1.3.6.tar.gz) = 21defeed175418c46d71af71fd493cd0cbffd693f9d43c2151529125859810df
 SIZE (slim-1.3.6.tar.gz) = 232547
diff --git a/x11/slim/files/extra-patch-xdefault b/x11/slim/files/extra-patch-xdefault
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..31ff1ce8c100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11/slim/files/extra-patch-xdefault
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- cfg.orig	2019-02-25 15:10:23.454289000 +0100
++++ cfg.cpp	2019-02-25 15:10:52.700402000 +0100
+@@ -293,6 +293,9 @@
+ 
+ 	sessions.clear();
+ 
++	pair<string,string> session("","default");
++	sessions.push_back(session);
++
+ 	if( !strSessionDir.empty() ) {
+ 		DIR *pDir = opendir(strSessionDir.c_str());
+ 
+@@ -335,11 +338,6 @@
+ 			}
+ 			closedir(pDir);
+ 		}
+-	}
+-
+-	if (sessions.empty()){
+-        pair<string,string> session("","");
+-        sessions.push_back(session);
+ 	}
+ }
diff --git a/x11/slim/files/pkg-message.in b/x11/slim/files/pkg-message.in
index 86d04c9f3562..c7458f7d8a4e 100644
--- a/x11/slim/files/pkg-message.in
+++ b/x11/slim/files/pkg-message.in
@@ -4,18 +4,21 @@
 Thanks to Nikos Ntarmos, it is now possible to start slim from /etc/ttys.
 Please see %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/slim for instructions on how to do that.
 
-Alternatively, just put
+Alternatively, just put the following entry in /etc/rc.conf:
 
 slim_enable=yes
 
-into /etc/rc.conf
-
 *** Option "sessions" is no longer supported. ***
 
 Now you need to put session files in the directory specified by option
 "sessiondir". They should be xdg-style .desktop files.
-The "Name" entry in the session file would be used as session name.
-The "Exec" entry would replace %session in login_cmd.
+
+WARNING: the default behaviour in parsing .xinitrc file has changed!
+         You can now set a default xsession as described here:
+         https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim/pull/1
+         You can turn back to random xsession selection by compiling
+         this port without the option XDEFAULT.
+
 EOM
 }
 ]