diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 313bd8f9bb4c..7aca12522d1e 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
   jwiegley = "John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>";
   jwilberding = "Jordan Wilberding <jwilberding@afiniate.com>";
   jzellner = "Jeff Zellner <jeffz@eml.cc>";
+  kamilchm = "Kamil Chmielewski <kamil.chm@gmail.com>";
   kkallio = "Karn Kallio <tierpluspluslists@gmail.com>";
   koral = "Koral <koral@mailoo.org>";
   kovirobi = "Kovacsics Robert <kovirobi@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..39d942362be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, python27Packages, pkgs }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "qtile-${version}";
+  version = "0.10.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "qtile";
+    repo = "qtile";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1g02lvk2cqy6w6y6nw6dnsmy4i9k4fyawyibpkf0a7a1nfrd6a99";
+  };
+
+  patches = [ ./restart_executable.patch ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace libqtile/manager.py --subst-var-by out $out
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig pkgs.glib pkgs.xlibs.libxcb pkgs.cairo pkgs.pango python27Packages.xcffib ];
+
+  cairocffi-xcffib = python27Packages.cairocffi.override {
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${pkgs.xlibs.libxcb}/lib:${pkgs.cairo}/lib";
+    pythonPath = [ python27Packages.xcffib ];
+  };
+
+  pythonPath = with python27Packages; [ xcffib cairocffi-xcffib trollius readline ];
+
+  LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${pkgs.xlibs.libxcb}/lib:${pkgs.cairo}/lib";
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/qtile \
+      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${pkgs.xlibs.libxcb}/lib \
+      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${pkgs.glib}/lib \
+      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${pkgs.cairo}/lib \
+      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${pkgs.pango}/lib
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://www.qtile.org/;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    description = "A small, flexible, scriptable tiling window manager written in Python";
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ kamilchm ];
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/restart_executable.patch b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/restart_executable.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a1e74a575d9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/restart_executable.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ruP a/libqtile/manager.py b/libqtile/manager.py
+--- a/libqtile/manager.py	2015-07-26 21:26:16.947976520 +0200
++++ b/libqtile/manager.py	2015-07-26 21:37:45.581316712 +0200
+@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@
+         argv = [s for s in argv if not s.startswith('--with-state')]
+         argv.append('--with-state=' + buf.getvalue().decode())
+ 
+-        self.cmd_execute(sys.executable, argv)
++        self.cmd_execute("@out@/bin/qtile", argv[1:])
+ 
+     def cmd_spawn(self, cmd):
+         """
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 54cedb67699d..841dbe178721 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12986,6 +12986,8 @@ let
 
   qpdfview = callPackage ../applications/misc/qpdfview {};
 
+  qtile = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/qtile { };
+
   qvim = lowPrio (callPackage ../applications/editors/vim/qvim.nix {
     inherit (pkgs) fetchgit stdenv ncurses pkgconfig gettext
       composableDerivation lib config python perl tcl ruby qt4;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 25e6a22aa613..0bf0979ac6a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1681,11 +1681,11 @@ let
 
 
   cairocffi = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "cairocffi-0.5.4";
+    name = "cairocffi-0.7.1";
 
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
       url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cairocffi/${name}.tar.gz";
-      md5 = "e3fa4002583bfaa88b156e1af9c75bde";
+      md5 = "e26d06a8d8b16c7210414ce15d453636";
     };
 
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ cffi ];
@@ -2363,11 +2363,11 @@ let
   };
 
   cffi = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "cffi-0.8.6";
+    name = "cffi-1.1.2";
 
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cffi/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0406j3sgndmx88idv5zxkkrwfqxmjl18pj8gf47nsg4ymzixjci5";
+      url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cffi/${name}.tar.gz";
+      md5 = "ca6e6c45b45caa87aee9adc7c796eaea";
     };
 
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.libffi pycparser ];
@@ -16770,4 +16770,22 @@ let
     };
   };
 
+  xcffib = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    version = "0.3.2";
+    name = "xcffib-${version}";
+
+    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+      url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xcffib/${name}.tar.gz";
+      md5 = "fa13f3fee67c83016a1242982a7c8bda";
+    };
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ self.cffi self.six ];
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "A drop in replacement for xpyb, an XCB python binding";
+      homepage = "https://github.com/tych0/xcffib";
+      license = licenses.asl20;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ kamilchm ];
+    };
+  };
 }; in pythonPackages