diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e5000e7..cdd48cce 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - On Windows, fixed `WindowEvent::ThemeChanged` not properly firing and fixed `Window::theme` returning the wrong theme.
 - On Web, added support for `DeviceEvent::MouseMotion` to listen for relative mouse movements.
 - Added `Window::drag_window`. Implemented on Windows, macOS, X11 and Wayland.
+- On X11, bump `mio` to 0.7.
 
 # 0.24.0 (2020-12-09)
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 68e85a1c..1af7d4d2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ targets = ["i686-pc-windows-msvc", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc", "i686-unknown-linux
 default = ["x11", "wayland"]
 web-sys = ["web_sys", "wasm-bindgen", "instant/wasm-bindgen"]
 stdweb = ["std_web", "instant/stdweb"]
-x11 = ["x11-dl", "mio", "mio-extras", "percent-encoding", "parking_lot"]
+x11 = ["x11-dl", "mio", "mio-misc", "percent-encoding", "parking_lot"]
 wayland = ["wayland-client", "sctk"]
 
 [dependencies]
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ features = [
 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "dragonfly", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "openbsd", target_os = "netbsd"))'.dependencies]
 wayland-client = { version = "0.28", features = [ "dlopen"] , optional = true }
 sctk = { package = "smithay-client-toolkit", version = "0.12.3", optional = true }
-mio = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
-mio-extras = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
+mio = { version = "0.7", features = ["os-ext"], optional = true }
+mio-misc = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 x11-dl = { version = "2.18.5", optional = true }
 percent-encoding = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
 parking_lot = { version = "0.11.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/mod.rs b/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/mod.rs
index d06936c5..11b5d9ec 100644
--- a/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/mod.rs
+++ b/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/mod.rs
@@ -32,15 +32,20 @@ use std::{
     ptr,
     rc::Rc,
     slice,
+    sync::mpsc::Receiver,
     sync::{mpsc, Arc, Weak},
     time::{Duration, Instant},
 };
 
 use libc::{self, setlocale, LC_CTYPE};
 
-use mio::{unix::EventedFd, Events, Poll, PollOpt, Ready, Token};
+use mio::{unix::SourceFd, Events, Interest, Poll, Token, Waker};
 
-use mio_extras::channel::{channel, Receiver, SendError, Sender};
+use mio_misc::{
+    channel::{channel, SendError, Sender},
+    queue::NotificationQueue,
+    NotificationId,
+};
 
 use self::{
     dnd::{Dnd, DndState},
@@ -57,8 +62,7 @@ use crate::{
 };
 
 const X_TOKEN: Token = Token(0);
-const USER_TOKEN: Token = Token(1);
-const REDRAW_TOKEN: Token = Token(2);
+const USER_REDRAW_TOKEN: Token = Token(1);
 
 pub struct EventLoopWindowTarget<T> {
     xconn: Arc<XConnection>,
@@ -180,33 +184,16 @@ impl<T: 'static> EventLoop<T> {
         mod_keymap.reset_from_x_connection(&xconn);
 
         let poll = Poll::new().unwrap();
+        let waker = Arc::new(Waker::new(poll.registry(), USER_REDRAW_TOKEN).unwrap());
+        let queue = Arc::new(NotificationQueue::new(waker));
 
-        let (user_sender, user_channel) = channel();
-        let (redraw_sender, redraw_channel) = channel();
+        poll.registry()
+            .register(&mut SourceFd(&xconn.x11_fd), X_TOKEN, Interest::READABLE)
+            .unwrap();
 
-        poll.register(
-            &EventedFd(&xconn.x11_fd),
-            X_TOKEN,
-            Ready::readable(),
-            PollOpt::level(),
-        )
-        .unwrap();
+        let (user_sender, user_channel) = channel(queue.clone(), NotificationId::gen_next());
 
-        poll.register(
-            &user_channel,
-            USER_TOKEN,
-            Ready::readable(),
-            PollOpt::level(),
-        )
-        .unwrap();
-
-        poll.register(
-            &redraw_channel,
-            REDRAW_TOKEN,
-            Ready::readable(),
-            PollOpt::level(),
-        )
-        .unwrap();
+        let (redraw_sender, redraw_channel) = channel(queue, NotificationId::gen_next());
 
         let target = Rc::new(RootELW {
             p: super::EventLoopWindowTarget::X(EventLoopWindowTarget {
diff --git a/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/window.rs b/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/window.rs
index b4ca7c40..3f720f0b 100644
--- a/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/window.rs
+++ b/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/window.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use libc;
-use mio_extras::channel::Sender;
+use mio_misc::channel::Sender;
 use parking_lot::Mutex;
 
 use crate::{