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I encounter quite often the problem that I want to kick all connected clients from a running VNC server.  Even better would be to be able to kick / kill only certain clients.  With netstat -tupa | grep 5901 I see that several clients are connected, but I don't know how to disconnect them.

I'm using the TigerVNC-server.

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  • I found a workaround: install the package dsniff, where the tool tcpkill lives. Then call tcpkill -i eth0 port 59230, where the port number is the one which is shown as the foreign address. This will disconnect it the hard way. Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 14:34

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A good way to disconnect all clients from a running VNC server (Xvnc) –

  1. Login to the server, where your $DISPLAY is set correctly
  2. vncconfig -disconnect.

The VNC server isn't affected; it just closes all of the client connections.  Now you can open a new VNC client connection, if desired.

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  • Great answer, kicked about 10 duplicate users and now my session is fast again. Commented Oct 17, 2019 at 21:47
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This works as well to kill a bunch of VNCs at once:

for VARIABLE in {0..99}; do vncserver -kill :$VARIABLE; done

Replace 0..99 with the range you want to kill.

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  • Hi Juan I believe this ... kill ... is terminating the VNC Server processes; instead of just closing Client connections on a running VNC server. So the original post, here, wanted the other thing. Commented Dec 17, 2021 at 18:33
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kill `pidof xtightvnc`   I use this option to kill VNC server.

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    This kills the server. The user wants to disconnect clients without killing the server. Commented Nov 22, 2020 at 8:54

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