diff --git a/powerline/bindings/qtile/widget.py b/powerline/bindings/qtile/widget.py
index 897658c9..99586582 100644
--- a/powerline/bindings/qtile/widget.py
+++ b/powerline/bindings/qtile/widget.py
@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
 # vim:fileencoding=utf-8:noet
 from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function)
 
-from libqtile import bar
-from libqtile.widget import base
+from libqtile.bar import CALCULATED
+from libqtile.widget import TextBox
 
-from powerline import Powerline as PowerlineCore
+from powerline import Powerline
 
 
-class Powerline(base._TextBox):
-	def __init__(self, timeout=2, text=' ', width=bar.CALCULATED, **config):
-		base._TextBox.__init__(self, text, width, **config)
+class QTilePowerline(Powerline):
+	def do_setup(self, obj):
+		obj.powerline = self
+
+
+class PowerlineTextBox(TextBox):
+	def __init__(self, timeout=2, text=' ', width=CALCULATED, **config):
+		super(PowerlineTextBox, self).__init__(text, width, **config)
 		self.timeout_add(timeout, self.update)
-		self.powerline = PowerlineCore(ext='wm', renderer_module='pango_markup')
+		powerline = QTilePowerline(ext='wm', renderer_module='pango_markup')
+		powerline.setup(self)
 
 	def update(self):
 		if not self.configured:
@@ -27,7 +33,7 @@ class Powerline(base._TextBox):
 		return self.text
 
 	def _configure(self, qtile, bar):
-		base._TextBox._configure(self, qtile, bar)
+		super(PowerlineTextBox, self)._configure(qtile, bar)
 		self.layout = self.drawer.textlayout(
 			self.text,
 			self.foreground,
@@ -35,3 +41,7 @@ class Powerline(base._TextBox):
 			self.fontsize,
 			self.fontshadow,
 			markup=True)
+
+
+# TODO: Remove this at next major release
+Powerline = PowerlineTextBox