diff --git a/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1-QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM.patch b/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1-QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e00cce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1-QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -up qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1/src/gui/kernel/qapplication.cpp.QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1/src/gui/kernel/qapplication.cpp
+--- qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1/src/gui/kernel/qapplication.cpp.QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM	2010-05-03 19:43:24.000000000 -0500
++++ qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1/src/gui/kernel/qapplication.cpp	2010-05-17 13:56:33.851069964 -0500
+@@ -774,6 +774,10 @@ void QApplicationPrivate::construct(
+ 
+     qt_is_gui_used = (qt_appType != QApplication::Tty);
+     process_cmdline();
++    // the environment variable has the lowest precedence of runtime graphicssystem switches
++    if (graphics_system_name.isEmpty()) {
++        graphics_system_name = QString::fromLocal8Bit(qgetenv("QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM"));
++    }
+     // Must be called before initialize()
+     qt_init(this, qt_appType
+ #ifdef Q_WS_X11
diff --git a/qt.spec b/qt.spec
index 5390c50..12edc9f 100644
--- a/qt.spec
+++ b/qt.spec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Summary: Qt toolkit
 Name:    qt
 Epoch:   1
 Version: 4.7.0
-Release: 0.12.%{pre}%{?dist}
+Release: 0.13.%{pre}%{?dist}
 
 # See LGPL_EXCEPTIONS.txt, LICENSE.GPL3, respectively, for exception details
 License: LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ Patch207: 0007-When-using-qmake-outside-qt-src-tree-it-sometimes-ge.patch
 Patch208: 0008-This-patch-makes-the-raster-graphics-system-use-shar.patch
 Patch209: 0009-Restore-a-section-of-the-file-that-got-removed-due-t.patch
 Patch212: 0012-Add-context-to-tr-calls-in-QShortcut.patch
+# based on http://qt.gitorious.org/+kde-developers/qt/kde-qt/commit/55ef01d93f8257b5927660290fc1ead0b2b74ec9.patch
+Patch217: qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0-beta1-QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM.patch
 
 Source10: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/images/artwork/gstreamer-logo.svg
 Source11: hi16-phonon-gstreamer.png
@@ -428,6 +430,7 @@ Qt libraries used for drawing widgets and OpenGL items.
 #patch207 -p1 -b .kde-qt-0007
 %patch212 -p1 -b .kde-qt-0012
 %endif
+%patch217 -p1 -b .QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM
 
 # drop -fexceptions from $RPM_OPT_FLAGS
 RPM_OPT_FLAGS=`echo $RPM_OPT_FLAGS | sed 's|-fexceptions||g'`
@@ -1064,6 +1067,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon May 17 2010 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 4.7.0-0.13.beta1
+- QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM env support
+
 * Sun May 16 2010 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 4.7.0-0.12.beta1
 - -webkit-devel: move Qt/qweb*.h here (#592680)