diff --git a/atom.gyp b/atom.gyp
index bccb001cb53..9805db874f8 100644
--- a/atom.gyp
+++ b/atom.gyp
@@ -587,10 +587,10 @@
               '-rpath \$$ORIGIN',
               # Make native module dynamic loading work.
               '-rdynamic',
-              '<!@(pkg-config --libs-only-L --libs-only-other dbus-1)',
+              '<!@(pkg-config --libs-only-L --libs-only-other dbus-1 x11 xrandr xext gconf-2.0)',
             ],
             'libraries': [
-              '<!@(pkg-config --libs-only-l dbus-1)',
+              '<!@(pkg-config --libs-only-l dbus-1 x11 xrandr xext gconf-2.0)',
             ],
           },
           # Required settings of using breakpad.
diff --git a/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md b/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md
index 7ce62b2526e..901446957e8 100644
--- a/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md
+++ b/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 On Ubuntu you could install the libraries via:
 
 ```bash
-$ sudo apt-get install build-essential clang libdbus-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnotify-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib
+$ sudo apt-get install build-essential clang libdbus-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnotify-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgconf2-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib
 ```
 
 Latest Node.js could be installed via ppa: