diff --git a/ci/azure/posix.yml b/ci/azure/posix.yml
index c5676e0a2a6a0..62532f7630318 100644
--- a/ci/azure/posix.yml
+++ b/ci/azure/posix.yml
@@ -53,18 +53,22 @@ jobs:
         echo "Creating Environment"
         ci/setup_env.sh
       displayName: 'Setup environment and build pandas'
+
     - script: |
         export PATH=$HOME/miniconda3/bin:$PATH
         source activate pandas-dev
         ci/run_tests.sh
       displayName: 'Test'
+
     - script: |
         export PATH=$HOME/miniconda3/bin:$PATH
         source activate pandas-dev && pushd /tmp && python -c "import pandas; pandas.show_versions();" && popd
+
     - task: PublishTestResults@2
       inputs:
         testResultsFiles: 'test-data-*.xml'
         testRunTitle: ${{ format('{0}-$(CONDA_PY)', parameters.name) }}
+
     - powershell: |
         $junitXml = "test-data-single.xml"
         $(Get-Content $junitXml | Out-String) -match 'failures="(.*?)"'
@@ -90,6 +94,7 @@ jobs:
           Write-Error "$($matches[1]) tests failed"
         }
       displayName: 'Check for test failures'
+
     - script: |
         export PATH=$HOME/miniconda3/bin:$PATH
         source activate pandas-dev
diff --git a/ci/run_tests.sh b/ci/run_tests.sh
index ee46da9f52eab..103385c9a2541 100755
--- a/ci/run_tests.sh
+++ b/ci/run_tests.sh
@@ -46,9 +46,20 @@ do
     fi
 
     PYTEST_CMD="pytest -m \"$TYPE_PATTERN$PATTERN\" -n $NUM_JOBS -s --strict --durations=10 --junitxml=test-data-$TYPE.xml $TEST_ARGS $COVERAGE pandas"
+    echo $AGENT_OS
+    if [[ "$AGENT_OS" == "Linux" ]]; then
+        echo "Emulating X server with xvfb for clipboard tests to run (this should only be displayed in Linux build of Azure Pipelines)"
+        DISPLAY=:99.0
+        PYTEST_CMD="xvfb-run $PYTEST_CMD"
+        # Sleeping a bit the second time we execute the tests with xvfb to make sure the previous execution finished
+        if [ -n $PYTEST_PID ]; then
+            timeout 60 tail --pid=$pid -f /dev/null
+        fi
+    fi
     echo $PYTEST_CMD
     # if no tests are found (the case of "single and slow"), pytest exits with code 5, and would make the script fail, if not for the below code
     sh -c "$PYTEST_CMD; ret=\$?; [ \$ret = 5 ] && exit 0 || exit \$ret"
+    PYTEST_PID=$!
 
     if [[ "$COVERAGE" && $? == 0 ]]; then
         echo "uploading coverage for $TYPE tests"