diff --git a/samples/GtkVideoPlayer.cs b/samples/GtkVideoPlayer.cs
index 14560f0263..ad31b2d286 100644
--- a/samples/GtkVideoPlayer.cs
+++ b/samples/GtkVideoPlayer.cs
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ public class MainWindow : Gtk.Window {
   bool _pipelineOK = false;
 
   public static void Main (string[] args) {
+    if (System.Environment.OSVersion.Platform == PlatformID.Unix)
+      XInitThreads ();
+
     Gtk.Application.Init ();
     Gst.Application.Init ();
     MainWindow window = new MainWindow ();
@@ -262,4 +265,7 @@ public class MainWindow : Gtk.Window {
   [DllImport ("libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll") ]
   static extern bool gdk_window_ensure_native (IntPtr handle);
 #endif
+
+  [DllImport ("libX11.so.6")]
+  static extern int XInitThreads ();
 }
diff --git a/samples/gtk-video-player.exe.config b/samples/gtk-video-player.exe.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a1507ce99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/gtk-video-player.exe.config
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<configuration>
+	<dllmap dll="libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll" target="libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0"/>
+</configuration>