An option "Show status 'connected' in status area" is added and enabled by default. I modified the "SSH" icon to show an additional "user" symbol above the letters. The idea of giving it a yellow color confused me a bit, I prefer the yellow color being associated with "server on", so i kept the white color of the status area icon.

The "timeout" feature got a modification. Status "off" is now displayed without a delay again. Instead there's a follow-up time of 10 seconds for tracking. If the display still switches to "off" while the server keeps running, there has to be a yet uncovered conflict with something else .

Before uploading I'll wait for some feedback regarding the two actual issues, mistaken switching to "off" and appearing icon in the status area. I attached the deb file of v1.3-pre.