diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index b859d07472..0565bca4c1 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -629,6 +629,7 @@ wxGTK:
 - Make items selected from keyboard visible in wxListCtrl (Jonathan Dagresta).
 - Cosmetic fix for empty wxCheckBoxes display (Chuddah).
 - Fix crashes in wxFileSystemWatcher implementation (David Hart).
+- Fix key events codes when using Wayland (David Hart).
 
 wxMSW:
 
diff --git a/src/gtk/window.cpp b/src/gtk/window.cpp
index e979fd123d..41ea787f44 100644
--- a/src/gtk/window.cpp
+++ b/src/gtk/window.cpp
@@ -810,9 +810,11 @@ wxTranslateGTKKeyEventToWx(wxKeyEvent& event,
                 // got one
                 key_code = keysymNormalized ? keysymNormalized : keysym;
             }
-#else
-            key_code = keysym;
-#endif
+            else
+#endif // GDK_WINDOWING_X11
+            {
+                key_code = keysym;
+            }
 
             // as explained above, we want to have lower register key codes
             // normally but for the letter keys we want to have the upper ones