diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix
index a505c852a95c..c4a33628e131 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ let
       sha256 = "TRmul3t//izJRdViTvxFz29JZeGYsWc7WsJjagQ35nw=";
     };
 
+    patches = [
+      ./fix-restart.patch # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/139568
+    ];
+
     postPatch = ''
       substituteInPlace libqtile/pangocffi.py \
         --replace libgobject-2.0.so.0 ${glib.out}/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/fix-restart.patch b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/fix-restart.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eca4f0866342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/qtile/fix-restart.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git a/libqtile/core/lifecycle.py b/libqtile/core/lifecycle.py
+index 0d4d119d..c37d1799 100644
+--- a/libqtile/core/lifecycle.py
++++ b/libqtile/core/lifecycle.py
+@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class LifeCycle:
+ 
+     def _atexit(self) -> None:
+         if self.behavior is Behavior.RESTART:
+-            argv = [sys.executable] + sys.argv
++            argv = sys.argv
+             if "--no-spawn" not in argv:
+                 argv.append("--no-spawn")
+             argv = [s for s in argv if not s.startswith("--with-state")]
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class LifeCycle:
+                 argv.append("--with-state=" + self.state_file)
+             logger.warning("Restarting Qtile with os.execv(...)")
+             # No other code will execute after the following line does
+-            os.execv(sys.executable, argv)
++            os.execv(sys.argv[0], argv)
+         elif self.behavior is Behavior.TERMINATE:
+             logger.warning("Qtile will now terminate")
+         elif self.behavior is Behavior.NONE: