diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_6.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_6.2.bb
index b6b9a068a9..9e54f49dcb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_6.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_6.2.bb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ DEPENDS = "gtkmm4 pulseaudio json-glib"
 inherit meson features_check pkgconfig gettext
 
 ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES = "opengl vulkan"
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.xz"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e93a7836c7307dcbc989e95fc7ec0878322514c475fabd90e89ed52fd4f15d32"