diff --git a/docs/source/pymor_defaults.py b/docs/source/pymor_defaults.py
index f03dd56734bb66c4ef327cad4df36a952307cf15..f4c425e6240b433745004df45821e8873b32c9d2 100644
--- a/docs/source/pymor_defaults.py
+++ b/docs/source/pymor_defaults.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-d = {}
+d = {'pymor.discretizers.builtin.gui.jupyter.get_visualizer.backend': 'MPL'}