diff --git a/nixos/tests/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal.nix b/nixos/tests/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal.nix
index 90529d37ee0f..d40317faeb01 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,20 @@
 makeInstalledTest {
   tested = pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal;
 
-  # Ton of breakage.
-  # https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/428
-  meta.broken = true;
+  # Red herring
+  # Failed to load RealtimeKit property: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1 was not provided by any .service files
+  # Maybe a red herring, enabling PipeWire doesn't fix the location test.
+  # Failed connect to PipeWire: Couldn't connect to PipeWire
+  testConfig = {
+    environment.variables = {
+      TEST_IN_CI = 1;
+      XDG_DATA_DIRS = "${pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal.installedTests}/share/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal/share";
+    };
+    # Broken, see comment in the package file.
+    #services.geoclue2 = {
+    #  enable = true;
+    #  enableDemoAgent = true;
+    #};
+    #location.provider = "geoclue2";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/default.nix
index f1dea3ab641c..6275dafd6bcd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/default.nix
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 , runCommand
 , wrapGAppsHook3
 , xmlto
+, bash
 , enableGeoLocation ? true
 , enableSystemd ? true
 }:
@@ -63,6 +64,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
     # test tries to read /proc/cmdline, which is not intended to be accessible in the sandbox
     ./trash-test.patch
+
+    # Install files required to be in XDG_DATA_DIR of the installed tests
+    # Merged PR https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1444
+    ./installed-tests-share.patch
   ];
 
   # until/unless bubblewrap ships a pkg-config file, meson has no way to find it when cross-compiling.
@@ -102,6 +107,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     (python3.withPackages (pp: with pp; [
       pygobject3
     ]))
+    bash
   ] ++ lib.optionals enableGeoLocation [
     geoclue2
   ] ++ lib.optionals enableSystemd [
@@ -142,6 +148,21 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     export TEST_IN_CI=1
   '';
 
+  postFixup = let
+    documentFuse = "${placeholder "installedTests"}/libexec/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal/test-document-fuse.py";
+    testPortals = "${placeholder "installedTests"}/libexec/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal/test-portals";
+
+  in ''
+    if [ -x '${documentFuse}' ] ; then
+      wrapGApp '${documentFuse}'
+      wrapGApp '${testPortals}'
+      # (xdg-desktop-portal:995): xdg-desktop-portal-WARNING **: 21:21:55.673: Failed to get GeoClue client: Timeout was reached
+      # xdg-desktop-portal:ERROR:../tests/location.c:22:location_cb: 'res' should be TRUE
+      # https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/1d6dfb57067dec182b546dfb60c87aa3452c77ed/tests/location.c#L21
+      rm $installedTests/share/installed-tests/xdg-desktop-portal/test-portals-location.test
+    fi
+  '';
+
   passthru = {
     tests = {
       installedTests = nixosTests.installed-tests.xdg-desktop-portal;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/installed-tests-share.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/installed-tests-share.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba9a3822e59e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal/installed-tests-share.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+diff --git a/tests/share/applications/meson.build b/tests/share/applications/meson.build
+index d56b633..3ad3371 100644
+--- a/tests/share/applications/meson.build
++++ b/tests/share/applications/meson.build
+@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
+-configure_file(input: 'furrfix.desktop', output: '@PLAINNAME@', copy: true)
+-configure_file(input: 'mimeinfo.cache', output: '@PLAINNAME@', copy: true)
++configure_file(input: 'furrfix.desktop', output: '@PLAINNAME@', copy: true, install: enable_installed_tests, install_dir: installed_tests_data_dir / 'share' / 'applications')
++configure_file(input: 'mimeinfo.cache', output: '@PLAINNAME@', copy: true, install: enable_installed_tests, install_dir: installed_tests_data_dir / 'share' / 'applications')