diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 921fffd44..286f828f2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -22,16 +22,20 @@ matrix:
       name: "PyPy3 Xenial"
     - python: '3.7'
       name: "3.7 Xenial"
+      services: xvfb
     - python: '2.7'
       name: "2.7 Xenial"
     - python: '3.6'
       name: "3.6 Xenial PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1"
       env: PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1
+      services: xvfb
     - python: '3.5'
       name: "3.5 Xenial PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2"
       env: PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2
+      services: xvfb
     - python: "3.8-dev"
       name: "3.8-dev Xenial"
+      services: xvfb
     - env: DOCKER="alpine" DOCKER_TAG="master"
     - env: DOCKER="arch" DOCKER_TAG="master" # contains PyQt5
     - env: DOCKER="ubuntu-16.04-xenial-amd64" DOCKER_TAG="master"
diff --git a/.travis/install.sh b/.travis/install.sh
index e37ec8a0f..6ad89402e 100755
--- a/.travis/install.sh
+++ b/.travis/install.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ pip install -U pytest-cov
 pip install pyroma
 pip install test-image-results
 pip install numpy
+if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == 3.* ]]; then
+    sudo apt-get -qq install pyqt5-dev-tools
+    pip install pyqt5
+fi
 
 # docs only on Python 2.7
 if [ "$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION" == "2.7" ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt ; fi