diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -41,9 +41,13 @@
 
 option(ENABLE_INOTIFY "Try to use inotify for directory monitoring" ON)
 if(ENABLE_INOTIFY)
-    include(CheckIncludeFiles)
-    check_include_files(sys/inotify.h SYS_INOTIFY_H_FOUND)
-    set(HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H ${SYS_INOTIFY_H_FOUND})
+    # Find libinotify
+    find_package(Inotify)
+    set_package_properties(Inotify PROPERTIES
+        PURPOSE "Filesystem alteration notifications using inotify")
+    set(HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H ${Inotify_FOUND})
+else()
+    set(HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H FALSE)
 endif()
 
 # Generate io/config-kdirwatch.h
diff --git a/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
    set(kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_LIBS ${kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_LIBS} ${FAM_LIBRARIES})
 endif ()
 
+if (Inotify_FOUND)
+   include_directories(${Inotify_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+   set(kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_LIBS ${kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_LIBS} ${Inotify_LIBRARIES})
+endif ()
+
 if(NOT WIN32)
     set(kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_SRCS caching/kshareddatacache.cpp)
     set(kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_LIBS ${kcoreaddons_OPTIONAL_LIBS} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
diff --git a/src/lib/io/kdirwatch.cpp b/src/lib/io/kdirwatch.cpp
--- a/src/lib/io/kdirwatch.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/io/kdirwatch.cpp
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
     } else if (method == "QFSWatch") {
         return KDirWatch::QFSWatch;
     } else {
-#ifdef Q_OS_LINUX
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H)
         // inotify supports delete+recreate+modify, which QFSWatch doesn't support
         return KDirWatch::INotify;
 #else