ITISTODAY  While I'm happy to see this is finally being updated, there are still several problems, and one of them is quite unforgivable:

- GeekTool is currently taking up 200MB of RAM. This is unacceptable and makes it unusable for me. Such a small problem should not take up so much RAM. NerdTool by comparison takes up only 16.6MB (that could probably be improved too, but it's certainly better than 200).

- You can't put a drop shadow on the text from a shell script.

- You can't customize terminal colors as you can with NerdTool. I.e. I don't like what it picks for the default green, it'd be nice if that was something I could change.

- There's no way to change advanced text output like line spacing.

On the plus side though, unlike NerdTool, you when it says "stay on top", your tools will stay above the menubar which is very useful for doing stuff like replacing MenuMeters.  
(Version 3.0rc5)

NICOLASD  Love this little program. So glad it's back and updated!  
(Version 3.0rc5)

ESTNYC  As much as I'd love to have a newer, shinier Geektool, I had to turn this off. It doesn't use much RAM, but it ballooned to using 35 GB (yes GB) of virtual memory, slowing my iMac to a crawl. Maybe next release...  
(Version 3.0rc4)

CH5719  Is there a way to import the old settings? The idea of setting this up all over again kinda makes me sweat  
(Version 3.0 RC1)

GIOVANNI LANZANI  It's really great, however if a display the output of

top -ocpu -FR -l2 -n20 | grep '^....[1234567890] ' | grep -v ' 0.0% ..:' | cut -c 1-24,33-42,64-77

it doens't justify it, even if the terminal does (this holds also if I put the above inside a script).  
(Version 3.0 RC1)

BLACKSMITH_TB  The all-new (Leopard or better) GeekTool 3 is in beta:

http://thememymac.com/2009/geektool/more-on-geektool-3/  
(Version 2.1.2)

YULETIDE  Loved this app back in the day (like last year) but lack of developer support has left it buggy and increasingly irrelevant... off to give MkConsole a try  
(Version 2.1.2)

MNTBIGHKER  If you run most of the time on Leopard as non-admin neither Geektool or MKconsole can show you /var/log/system.log because of lack of permissions. Somehow Console.app manages to in "Log Database Queries" but NOT directly. Is any of this registering with anyone? I am torn between thinking you should not have routine access to system.log as a regular user, but I also need to see it, so for convenience I would like to solve this.  
(Version 2.1.2)

BALTHAMOS  I'm running Leopard (10.5.1) on a MBP and I have been having sleep issues with Geektool running. Of course, I can close the lid and it will fall asleep, but if Geektool is running and I just let the Power Saving preferences take it's toll, it doesn't fall asleep.

If the refresh time on a GT entry is greater than the sleep time, the machine will fall asleep. But that kind of eliminates the whole purpose of the utility if I can only refresh every 10 minutes. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or at least experience the same problem I'm having?  
(Version 2.1.2)

XYZ043  GeekTool 2.1.2 kept crashing my PB G4 1.67 GHz DL when waking from sleep on 10.5.   
(Version 2.1.2)