diff --git a/srcpkgs/qtile/patches/musl.patch b/srcpkgs/qtile/patches/musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93fbf89bb07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qtile/patches/musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+musl doesn't have posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np, so python doesn't
+have os.POSIX_SPAWN_CLOSEFROM on musl.
+
+see: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues/5210
+
+--- a/libqtile/core/manager.py
++++ b/libqtile/core/manager.py
+@@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@
+                 (os.POSIX_SPAWN_DUP2, 2, null.fileno()),
+             ]
+ 
+-            if sys.version_info.major >= 3 and sys.version_info.minor >= 13:
++            if hasattr(os, "POSIX_SPAWN_CLOSEFROM"):
+                 # we should close all fds so that child processes don't
+                 # accidentally write to our x11 event loop or whatever; we never
+                 # used to do this, so it seems fine to only do it on python 3.13 or
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qtile/template b/srcpkgs/qtile/template
index 63ba2e7c0a0..7d2b9ec01c6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qtile/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qtile/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'qtile'
 pkgname=qtile
 version=0.31.0
-revision=1
+revision=2
 build_style=python3-pep517
 _wlroots=0.17
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools_scm python3-cairocffi python3-xcffib python3-wheel