diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xev_1.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xev_1.2.1.bb
index 298910a0d5..8dcb1ec6a4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xev_1.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xev_1.2.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 require xorg-app-common.inc
+
+SUMMARY = "X Event Viewer"
+DESCRIPTION = "Xev creates a window and then asks the X server to send it events \
+whenever anything happens to the window (such as it being moved, resized, \
+typed in, clicked in, etc.). You can also attach it to an existing window."
+
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://xev.c;beginline=1;endline=33;md5=577c99421f1803b891d2c79097ae4682"
-DESCRIPTION = "X Event Viewer"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
+
 PE = "1"
 
 DEPENDS += "libxrandr xproto"