package GMeM;
use warnings;
use strict;

#save this file as GMeM.pm and place in your PERL5LIB

my $pid =$$; #gets the caller script's pid and 
             #passes it thru the fork-&-exec below 

#only gets created after fork and exec to prevent 
#module's X socket connection from interfering with 
#calling program's X socket connection 

if ((defined  $ARGV[0]) and  ($ARGV[0] eq 'GMeM')) {
    #use Gtk2 '-init'; #BAD unnecessarily loads modules 
    eval "use Gtk2 -init;";
    $pid = $ARGV[1];

   my $blueh = Gtk2::Gdk::Color->new (0,0xFFFF,0xFFFF);
   my $bluel = Gtk2::Gdk::Color->new (0,0xCCCC,0xFFFF);

Gtk2::Rc->parse_string(<<___EOS);
style "normal" {
  font_name ="Sans Bold 12"
}

widget "*" style "normal"
___EOS

    my $win = Gtk2::Window->new('popup');
    $win->signal_connect( 'destroy' => \&delete_event );

    my ($xscr, $yscr) = (Gtk2::Gdk->screen_width, Gtk2::Gdk->screen_he
+ight);
    $win->move($xscr - 180, $yscr - 20);

    my $but = Gtk2::Button->new("PID: $pid->       " );

    $but->modify_bg ('normal', $blueh);
    $but->modify_bg ('prelight', $bluel);

    $but->signal_connect( 'clicked' => \&delete_event );

    $win->add($but);
    $0 = "GMeM $pid";
    $win->show_all();

    &refresh($pid);
    my $repeater = Glib::Timeout->add(1000, sub{ refresh($pid) ; 1;} )
+;

    Gtk2->main;
   #####################################  
   sub delete_event { Gtk2->main_quit; return 0; }

   sub refresh {
        my $pid = shift;
        #asmutils version of cat 
        #my @size = split "\n", `/home/zentara/perl5lib/cat /proc/$pid
+/status`;
        my @size = split "\n", `cat /proc/$pid/status`; 

        (my $vmsize) = grep { /VmSize/ } @size;
        my (undef, $size) = split '   ', $vmsize;
        $but->set_label("PID: $pid -> $size");
        if ($size eq '') { exit }
    }
   #################################### 

 } elsif (fork() == 0) { exec "$^X -MGMeM -e1 GMeM $pid"; }
                     # thanks to muppet for this cleverness
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