Is there a more graceful way of listing vncserver sessions than just getting the list of running PIDs?

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How do you list your vncserver sessions?

This article says to do this:

$ cat ~/.vnc/*.pid
5910
6790
16589
21891
... and many more

Using this method, I could write a script to check each pid, but there has got to be something better.

Is there a better way? I'd like to see something like:

$ vncserver -l
Session  User  Started     Status    Blah
1        jess  3/24 19:00  Active    ?
2        jess  3/21 14:00  Suspended ?

EDIT: For example. I have six sessions running, but I can only use one of them. All six show up as running processes. It would also be nice to see a list for other users too; I just found a server with 95 VNC sessions. I have no idea which ones are active.

Doesn't work for me on tightvncserver 1.3.9-6.4ubuntu1, but works on CentOS 7 (I'm guessing I have `tigervnc-1.3.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm`). — Roman Luštrik, Mar 14 '17 at 12:00
You could post a suggestion to the VNC project ! If you don't, I will .... eventually ;-) — MikeW, Jul 23 '17 at 08:04

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 27 '13 at 12:24

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I always use ps -ef | grep vnc, then pick out the parts I need from that.

edited Mar 27 '13 at 12:24

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answered Mar 27 '13 at 10:57

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I have 6 sessions listed. The only session I can get to is `:6`. How would I know which sessions are active/still working? – Jess Mar 27 '13 at 12:33

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 22 '20 at 18:50

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ps -ef | grep `whoami` | grep vnc

edited Sep 22 '20 at 18:50

Scott - Слава Україні

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answered Sep 22 '20 at 09:31

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Welcome to Super User! Could you please [edit] your answer to give an explanation of why this code answers the question? Code-only answers are [discouraged](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148272), because they don't teach the solution. – DavidPostill Sep 22 '20 at 11:06

Is there a more graceful way of listing vncserver sessions than just getting the list of running PIDs?

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