How old is this project? Why doesn't it get more attention? etc

wow, screen for X, and I knew nothing about it. Absolutely no need to apologise for 'thread hijacking'. This is a very useful thing indeed, which apprently not enough people know about. I've waited for NX for many years but it's always been a big pain in practice (forks, licencing, server not in Debian). Anything that gives me reconnectable-at-home/work X apps is _extremely_ useful. X over ssh is OK, but it doesn't give you the 'reconnect' feature.

If it's good it might even get me out of a range of terminal-based core practices which are text-based because the 'reconnectable single instance' aspect is the most important thing (irc, email).