diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0d3b192..f0ea621 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 aiohttp>=3.9,<4.0
 Pillow
 pystray
-PyGObject; sys_platform == "linux"  # required for better system tray support on Linux
+PyGObject<3.51; sys_platform == "linux"  # required for better system tray support on Linux
 
 # environment-dependent dependencies
 pywin32; sys_platform == "win32"