diff --git a/widgets/graph.c b/widgets/graph.c
index 686d56e81..7102a441a 100644
--- a/widgets/graph.c
+++ b/widgets/graph.c
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include <math.h>
 
 #include "widget.h"
-#include "screen.h"
 #include "common/tokenize.h"
 #include "common/draw.h"
 
diff --git a/widgets/progressbar.c b/widgets/progressbar.c
index e4eaa5d51..83b8e87a3 100644
--- a/widgets/progressbar.c
+++ b/widgets/progressbar.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
 #include "common/tokenize.h"
 #include "widget.h"
-#include "screen.h"
 
 extern awesome_t globalconf;
 
diff --git a/widgets/taglist.c b/widgets/taglist.c
index 0b7ce29a4..9530cd20b 100644
--- a/widgets/taglist.c
+++ b/widgets/taglist.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 #include "lua.h"
 #include "event.h"
 #include "common/markup.h"
-#include "common/configopts.h"
 #include "common/tokenize.h"
 
 extern awesome_t globalconf;
diff --git a/widgets/tasklist.c b/widgets/tasklist.c
index a31373c6c..b419d0b66 100644
--- a/widgets/tasklist.c
+++ b/widgets/tasklist.c
@@ -22,11 +22,9 @@
 #include "widget.h"
 #include "client.h"
 #include "focus.h"
-#include "screen.h"
 #include "event.h"
 #include "ewmh.h"
 #include "tag.h"
-#include "common/configopts.h"
 #include "common/markup.h"
 #include "common/tokenize.h"
 
diff --git a/widgets/textbox.c b/widgets/textbox.c
index 9b0a6c0d6..931a09d07 100644
--- a/widgets/textbox.c
+++ b/widgets/textbox.c
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
  */
 
 #include "widget.h"
-#include "screen.h"
-#include "common/util.h"
-#include "common/configopts.h"
 #include "common/tokenize.h"
 
 extern awesome_t globalconf;