Nik,

> I have not done a lot of TCP socket programming and my "view of this
> world" is probably overly simplistic, but I thought that if the vnc
> server has a TCP socket open an which it block-reads for 
> "messages" from
> the vnc client, as soon as the client goes away the server will get an
> end of stream, which should tell it that the client has gone away.

Who is it that sends the "end of stream" notification to the server in this
case?

> Anyway, I think I am gonna handle this with the -IdleTimeout Xvnc
> argument. The IdleTimeout refers to inactivity in both directions,
> right?

No.  IdleTimeout refers to lack of input (mouse, keyboard, etc) activity
from the viewer end.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
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