diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
index a3456755045f..8795f1b918f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-gsettings-overrides/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 let
 
+  inherit (lib) concatMapStringsSep;
+
   gsettingsOverridePackages = [
     # from
     mint-artwork
@@ -38,22 +40,21 @@ let
 
 in
 
-with lib;
-
 # TODO: Having https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/54150 would supersede this
-runCommand "cinnamon-gsettings-overrides" { }
+runCommand "cinnamon-gsettings-overrides" { preferLocalBuild = true; }
   ''
-    schema_dir=$out/share/gsettings-schemas/nixos-gsettings-overrides/glib-2.0/schemas
+    data_dir="$out/share/gsettings-schemas/nixos-gsettings-overrides"
+    schema_dir="$data_dir/glib-2.0/schemas"
 
-    mkdir -p $schema_dir
+    mkdir -p "$schema_dir"
 
-    ${concatMapStrings (pkg: "cp -rf ${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}/*.xml ${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}/*.gschema.override $schema_dir\n") gsettingsOverridePackages}
+    ${concatMapStringsSep "\n" (pkg: "cp -rf \"${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}\"/*.xml \"${glib.getSchemaPath pkg}\"/*.gschema.override \"$schema_dir\"") gsettingsOverridePackages}
 
-    chmod -R a+w $out/share/gsettings-schemas/nixos-gsettings-overrides
+    chmod -R a+w "$data_dir"
 
-    cat - > $schema_dir/nixos-defaults.gschema.override <<- EOF
+    cat - > "$schema_dir/nixos-defaults.gschema.override" <<- EOF
     ${extraGSettingsOverrides}
     EOF
 
-    ${glib.dev}/bin/glib-compile-schemas $schema_dir
+    ${glib.dev}/bin/glib-compile-schemas "$schema_dir"
   ''