diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 54778e7..33bc81f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "protocols/hyprland-protocols"]
-	path = protocols/hyprland-protocols
+[submodule "hyprland-protocols"]
+	path = subprojects/hyprland-protocols
 	url = https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-protocols
diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
index eb47d80..9afc37e 100644
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 {
   "nodes": {
     "hyprland-protocols": {
-      "flake": false,
+      "inputs": {
+        "nixpkgs": [
+          "nixpkgs"
+        ]
+      },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1670703428,
-        "narHash": "sha256-4KUW5SKR0Y9uaYGcYwy53YJ3B/sgiprCL4fRGO+mpOA=",
+        "lastModified": 1671839510,
+        "narHash": "sha256-+PY1qqJfmZzzROgcIY4I7AkCwpnC+qBIYk2eFoA9RWc=",
         "owner": "hyprwm",
         "repo": "hyprland-protocols",
-        "rev": "d0d6db8cb5bef6d93ca3ad8fb2124964173396da",
+        "rev": "b8f55e02a328c47ed373133c52483bbfa20a1b75",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 38e1171..d88267d 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     hyprland-protocols = {
       url = "github:hyprwm/hyprland-protocols";
-      flake = false;
+      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
     };
   };
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     overlays.default = _: prev: rec {
       xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland = prev.callPackage ./nix/default.nix {
         stdenv = prev.gcc12Stdenv;
-        inherit (inputs) hyprland-protocols;
+        inherit (inputs.hyprland-protocols.packages.${prev.hostPlatform.system}) hyprland-protocols;
         inherit hyprland-share-picker version;
       };
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 25d80c8..01abab6 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ inc = include_directories('include')
 
 rt = cc.find_library('rt')
 pipewire = dependency('libpipewire-0.3', version: '>= 0.3.41')
+hyprland_protos = dependency('hyprland-protocols', version: '>=0.1', fallback: 'hyprland-protocols')
 wayland_client = dependency('wayland-client')
 wayland_protos = dependency('wayland-protocols', version: '>=1.24')
 iniparser = dependency('inih')
diff --git a/nix/default.nix b/nix/default.nix
index e5d4fa3..828ab3e 100644
--- a/nix/default.nix
+++ b/nix/default.nix
@@ -28,14 +28,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   strictDeps = true;
   depsBuildBuild = [pkg-config];
   nativeBuildInputs = [meson ninja pkg-config wayland-scanner makeWrapper];
-  buildInputs = [inih libdrm mesa pipewire systemd wayland wayland-protocols];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    # for some reason rmdir doesn't work in a dirty tree
-    rmdir protocols/hyprland-protocols || true
-
-    ln -s ${hyprland-protocols.outPath}/ protocols/hyprland-protocols
-  '';
+  buildInputs = [hyprland-protocols inih libdrm mesa pipewire systemd wayland wayland-protocols];
 
   mesonFlags = [
     "-Dsd-bus-provider=libsystemd"
diff --git a/protocols/hyprland-protocols b/protocols/hyprland-protocols
deleted file mode 160000
index 301733a..0000000
--- a/protocols/hyprland-protocols
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 301733ae466b229066ba15a53e6d8b91c5dcef5b
diff --git a/protocols/meson.build b/protocols/meson.build
index 5545a64..9314d5f 100644
--- a/protocols/meson.build
+++ b/protocols/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 wl_protocol_dir = wayland_protos.get_variable('pkgdatadir')
+hl_protocol_dir = hyprland_protos.get_variable('pkgdatadir')
 
 wayland_scanner_dep = dependency('wayland-scanner', required: false, native: true)
 if wayland_scanner_dep.found()
@@ -13,9 +14,9 @@ endif
 client_protocols = [
 	wl_protocol_dir / 'unstable/linux-dmabuf/linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1.xml',
 	wl_protocol_dir / 'unstable/xdg-output/xdg-output-unstable-v1.xml',
+	hl_protocol_dir / 'protocols/hyprland-toplevel-export-v1.xml',
 	'wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1.xml',
 	'wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1.xml',
-	'hyprland-protocols/protocols/hyprland-toplevel-export-v1.xml'
 ]
 
 wl_proto_files = []
diff --git a/subprojects/hyprland-protocols b/subprojects/hyprland-protocols
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..b8f55e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/subprojects/hyprland-protocols
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit b8f55e02a328c47ed373133c52483bbfa20a1b75