I've just added a feature to GeekTool to have the window pop up on top of all other windows if the command it's running fails. This seems like a very good feature to have as GeekTool can be used as a great monitoring/notification tool. The script I showed last time works great with this feature enabled.

A lot of the code was already in there for this to happen, but it did take me a while to add since I haven't really done anything with Obj-C. I submitted the code to the maintainer and we'll see what happens. If he doesn't want to put it in the codebase, I'll put it up here eventually.

Anyone else have any features they'd like to see? Alan talked about playing a sound on failure, and I like that idea too. Baby steps first though. Baby steps.

Caveat: I am not the maintainer of GeekTool. I'm just a nobody hacker.