---
name: "impressive-display"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "impressive-display"
version: "0.4.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/impressive-display"
---

# impressive-display(1)

Fullscreen PDF Display Session Manager

## NAME

impressive-display - Fullscreen PDF Display Session Manager

## SYNOPSIS

**impressive-display**

## DESCRIPTION

**impressive-display** is a wrapper around impressive. It can turn a system into a PDF based display terminal.

**impressive-display** registers itself as an x-session-manager alternative and provides a very minimal X11 session, launching the matchbox-window-manager, pulseaudio (if requested) and unclutter (if requested) before starting a fullscreen PDF, image, and video presentation.

## OPTIONS

**impressive-display** ignores all given command line options. The Impressive PDF Display can be configured system-wide via /etc/default/impressive-display. Overrides can be configured on a per-user basis via $HOME/.impressive-display/config

## SEE ALSO

/etc/default/impressive-display

## AUTHOR

This manual has been written by Mike Gabriel \<mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de\> for the Debian Edu project (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu).