The -display WAIT option makes x11vnc wait until a VNC viewer is connected before attaching to the X display. Additionally it can be used to run an external command that returns the DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY data. We provide some useful builtin ones (FINDDISPLAY and FINDCREATEDISPLAY below), but in principle one could supply "-display WAIT:cmd=/path/to/find_display" where the script find_display might look something like:

  #!/bin/sh
  
  PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/openwin/bin
  export PATH
  
  user=$1
  if [ "X$user" = "X" ]; then
  	user=$USER
  fi
  if [ "X$user" = "X" ]; then
  	user=$LOGNAME
  fi
  if [ "X$user" = "X" ]; then
  	echo ""
  	exit 1
  fi
  
  display=`who | grep "^${user}[ 	][ 	]*:[0-9]" | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`
  if [ "X$display" = "X" ]; then
      display=`who | grep "^${user}[ 	]" | awk '{print $NF}' | grep '(:[0-9]' | sed -e 's/[()]//g' | head -1`
      if [ "X$display" = "X" ]; then
  	echo ""
  	exit 1
      fi
  fi
  
  echo "DISPLAY=$display"
  xauth extract - "$display" 2>/dev/null
  
  exit 0