diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index fd77a07..dd2442b 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ static const unsigned int borderpx  = 1;        /* border pixel of windows */
 static const unsigned int snap      = 32;       /* snap pixel */
 static const int showbar            = 1;        /* 0 means no bar */
 static const int topbar             = 1;        /* 0 means bottom bar */
+
+/*   Display modes of the tab bar: never shown, always shown, shown only in */
+/*   monocle mode in presence of several windows.                           */
+/*   Modes after showtab_nmodes are disabled                                */
+enum showtab_modes { showtab_never, showtab_auto, showtab_nmodes, showtab_always};
+static const int showtab            = showtab_auto; /* Default tab bar show mode */
+static const int toptab             = False;    /* False means bottom tab bar */
+
 static const char *fonts[]          = { "monospace:size=10" };
 static const char dmenufont[]       = "monospace:size=10";
 static const char col_gray1[]       = "#222222";
@@ -64,6 +72,7 @@ static Key keys[] = {
 	{ MODKEY,                       XK_p,      spawn,          {.v = dmenucmd } },
 	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_Return, spawn,          {.v = termcmd } },
 	{ MODKEY,                       XK_b,      togglebar,      {0} },
+	{ MODKEY,                       XK_w,      tabmode,        {-1} },
 	{ MODKEY,                       XK_j,      focusstack,     {.i = +1 } },
 	{ MODKEY,                       XK_k,      focusstack,     {.i = -1 } },
 	{ MODKEY,                       XK_i,      incnmaster,     {.i = +1 } },
@@ -111,5 +120,6 @@ static Button buttons[] = {
 	{ ClkTagBar,            0,              Button3,        toggleview,     {0} },
 	{ ClkTagBar,            MODKEY,         Button1,        tag,            {0} },
 	{ ClkTagBar,            MODKEY,         Button3,        toggletag,      {0} },
+	{ ClkTabBar,            0,              Button1,        focuswin,       {0} },
 };
 
diff --git a/dwm.1 b/dwm.1
index 6687011..9ff827c 100644
--- a/dwm.1
+++ b/dwm.1
@@ -19,14 +19,22 @@ layout applied.
 Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple
 tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags.
 .P
-Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the
-layout, the title of the focused window, and the text read from the root window
-name property, if the screen is focused. A floating window is indicated with an
-empty square and a maximised floating window is indicated with a filled square
-before the windows title.  The selected tags are indicated with a different
-color. The tags of the focused window are indicated with a filled square in the
-top left corner.  The tags which are applied to one or more windows are
-indicated with an empty square in the top left corner.
+Each screen contains two small status bars. 
+.P
+One bar displays all available tags, the layout, the title of the focused
+window, and the text read from the root window name property, if the screen is
+focused. A floating window is indicated with an empty square and a maximised
+floating window is indicated with a filled square before the windows title.  The
+selected tags are indicated with a different color. The tags of the focused
+window are indicated with a filled square in the top left corner.  The tags
+which are applied to one or more windows are indicated with an empty square in
+the top left corner. 
+.P
+Another bar contains a tab for each window of the current view and allows
+navigation between windows, especially in the monocle mode. The different
+display modes of this bar are described under the Mod1\-w Keybord command
+section.  When a single tag is selected, this tag is indicated in the left corner
+of the tab bar.
 .P
 dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
 .SH OPTIONS
@@ -43,7 +51,8 @@ command.
 .TP
 .B Button1
 click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout
-label toggles between tiled and floating layout.
+label toggles between tiled and floating layout, click on a window name in the
+tab bar brings focus to that window.
 .TP
 .B Button3
 click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view.
@@ -104,6 +113,12 @@ Increase master area size.
 .B Mod1\-h
 Decrease master area size.
 .TP
+.B Mod1\-w
+Cycle over the tab bar display modes: never displayed, always displayed,
+displayed only in monocle mode when the view contains more than one window (auto
+mode). Some display modes can be disabled in the configuration, config.h. In
+the default configuration only "never" and "auto" display modes are enabled.
+.TP
 .B Mod1\-Return
 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only).
 .TP
diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
index b2bc9bd..134a5b0 100644
--- a/dwm.c
+++ b/dwm.c
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ enum { NetSupported, NetWMName, NetWMState,
        NetWMFullscreen, NetActiveWindow, NetWMWindowType,
        NetWMWindowTypeDialog, NetClientList, NetLast }; /* EWMH atoms */
 enum { WMProtocols, WMDelete, WMState, WMTakeFocus, WMLast }; /* default atoms */
-enum { ClkTagBar, ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle,
+enum { ClkTagBar, ClkTabBar, ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle,
        ClkClientWin, ClkRootWin, ClkLast }; /* clicks */
 
 typedef union {
@@ -112,24 +112,32 @@ typedef struct {
 	void (*arrange)(Monitor *);
 } Layout;
 
+#define MAXTABS 50
+
 struct Monitor {
 	char ltsymbol[16];
 	float mfact;
 	int nmaster;
 	int num;
 	int by;               /* bar geometry */
+	int ty;               /* tab bar geometry */
 	int mx, my, mw, mh;   /* screen size */
 	int wx, wy, ww, wh;   /* window area  */
 	unsigned int seltags;
 	unsigned int sellt;
 	unsigned int tagset[2];
 	int showbar;
+	int showtab;
 	int topbar;
+	int toptab;
 	Client *clients;
 	Client *sel;
 	Client *stack;
 	Monitor *next;
 	Window barwin;
+	Window tabwin;
+	int ntabs;
+	int tab_widths[MAXTABS];
 	const Layout *lt[2];
 };
 
@@ -165,12 +173,15 @@ static void detachstack(Client *c);
 static Monitor *dirtomon(int dir);
 static void drawbar(Monitor *m);
 static void drawbars(void);
+static void drawtab(Monitor *m);
+static void drawtabs(void);
 static void enternotify(XEvent *e);
 static void expose(XEvent *e);
 static void focus(Client *c);
 static void focusin(XEvent *e);
 static void focusmon(const Arg *arg);
 static void focusstack(const Arg *arg);
+static void focuswin(const Arg* arg);
 static int getrootptr(int *x, int *y);
 static long getstate(Window w);
 static int gettextprop(Window w, Atom atom, char *text, unsigned int size);
@@ -207,6 +218,7 @@ static void setup(void);
 static void showhide(Client *c);
 static void sigchld(int unused);
 static void spawn(const Arg *arg);
+static void tabmode(const Arg *arg);
 static void tag(const Arg *arg);
 static void tagmon(const Arg *arg);
 static void tile(Monitor *);
@@ -241,6 +253,7 @@ static char stext[256];
 static int screen;
 static int sw, sh;           /* X display screen geometry width, height */
 static int bh, blw = 0;      /* bar geometry */
+static int th = 0;           /* tab bar geometry */
 static int lrpad;            /* sum of left and right padding for text */
 static int (*xerrorxlib)(Display *, XErrorEvent *);
 static unsigned int numlockmask = 0;
@@ -393,8 +406,9 @@ arrange(Monitor *m)
 }
 
 void
-arrangemon(Monitor *m)
-{
+arrangemon(Monitor *m) {
+	updatebarpos(m);
+	XMoveResizeWindow(dpy, m->tabwin, m->wx, m->ty, m->ww, th);
 	strncpy(m->ltsymbol, m->lt[m->sellt]->symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
 	if (m->lt[m->sellt]->arrange)
 		m->lt[m->sellt]->arrange(m);
@@ -444,14 +458,33 @@ buttonpress(XEvent *e)
 			click = ClkStatusText;
 		else
 			click = ClkWinTitle;
-	} else if ((c = wintoclient(ev->window))) {
+	}
+	if(ev->window == selmon->tabwin) {
+		i = 0; x = 0;
+		for(c = selmon->clients; c; c = c->next){
+		  if(!ISVISIBLE(c)) continue;
+		  x += selmon->tab_widths[i];
+		  if (ev->x > x)
+		    ++i;
+		  else
+		    break;
+		  if(i >= m->ntabs) break;
+		}
+		if(c) {
+		  click = ClkTabBar;
+		  arg.ui = i;
+		}
+	}
+	else if((c = wintoclient(ev->window))) {
 		focus(c);
 		click = ClkClientWin;
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < LENGTH(buttons); i++)
 		if (click == buttons[i].click && buttons[i].func && buttons[i].button == ev->button
-		&& CLEANMASK(buttons[i].mask) == CLEANMASK(ev->state))
-			buttons[i].func(click == ClkTagBar && buttons[i].arg.i == 0 ? &arg : &buttons[i].arg);
+		&& CLEANMASK(buttons[i].mask) == CLEANMASK(ev->state)){
+		        buttons[i].func(((click == ClkTagBar || click == ClkTabBar)
+				   && buttons[i].arg.i == 0) ? &arg : &buttons[i].arg);
+		}
 }
 
 void
@@ -504,6 +537,8 @@ cleanupmon(Monitor *mon)
 	}
 	XUnmapWindow(dpy, mon->barwin);
 	XDestroyWindow(dpy, mon->barwin);
+	XUnmapWindow(dpy, mon->tabwin);
+	XDestroyWindow(dpy, mon->tabwin);
 	free(mon);
 }
 
@@ -576,7 +611,9 @@ configurenotify(XEvent *e)
 		if (updategeom() || dirty) {
 			drw_resize(drw, sw, bh);
 			updatebars();
-			for (m = mons; m; m = m->next) {
+			//refreshing display of status bar. The tab bar is handled by the arrange()
+			//method, which is called below
+			for(m = mons; m; m = m->next){
 				for (c = m->clients; c; c = c->next)
 					if (c->isfullscreen)
 						resizeclient(c, m->mx, m->my, m->mw, m->mh);
@@ -650,7 +687,10 @@ createmon(void)
 	m->mfact = mfact;
 	m->nmaster = nmaster;
 	m->showbar = showbar;
+	m->showtab = showtab;
 	m->topbar = topbar;
+	m->toptab = toptab;
+	m->ntabs = 0;
 	m->lt[0] = &layouts[0];
 	m->lt[1] = &layouts[1 % LENGTH(layouts)];
 	strncpy(m->ltsymbol, layouts[0].symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
@@ -765,6 +805,105 @@ drawbars(void)
 }
 
 void
+drawtabs(void) {
+	Monitor *m;
+
+	for(m = mons; m; m = m->next)
+		drawtab(m);
+}
+
+static int
+cmpint(const void *p1, const void *p2) {
+  /* The actual arguments to this function are "pointers to
+     pointers to char", but strcmp(3) arguments are "pointers
+     to char", hence the following cast plus dereference */
+  return *((int*) p1) > * (int*) p2;
+}
+
+
+void
+drawtab(Monitor *m) {
+	Client *c;
+	int i;
+	int itag = -1;
+	char view_info[50];
+	int view_info_w = 0;
+	int sorted_label_widths[MAXTABS];
+	int tot_width;
+	int maxsize = bh;
+	int x = 0;
+	int w = 0;
+
+	//view_info: indicate the tag which is displayed in the view
+	for(i = 0; i < LENGTH(tags); ++i){
+	  if((selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] >> i) & 1) {
+	    if(itag >=0){ //more than one tag selected
+	      itag = -1;
+	      break;
+	    }
+	    itag = i;
+	  }
+	}
+
+	if(0 <= itag  && itag < LENGTH(tags)){
+	  snprintf(view_info, sizeof view_info, "[%s]", tags[itag]);
+	} else {
+	  strncpy(view_info, "[...]", sizeof view_info);
+	}
+	view_info[sizeof(view_info) - 1 ] = 0;
+	view_info_w = TEXTW(view_info);
+	tot_width = view_info_w;
+
+	/* Calculates number of labels and their width */
+	m->ntabs = 0;
+	for(c = m->clients; c; c = c->next){
+	  if(!ISVISIBLE(c)) continue;
+	  m->tab_widths[m->ntabs] = TEXTW(c->name);
+	  tot_width += m->tab_widths[m->ntabs];
+	  ++m->ntabs;
+	  if(m->ntabs >= MAXTABS) break;
+	}
+
+	if(tot_width > m->ww){ //not enough space to display the labels, they need to be truncated
+	  memcpy(sorted_label_widths, m->tab_widths, sizeof(int) * m->ntabs);
+	  qsort(sorted_label_widths, m->ntabs, sizeof(int), cmpint);
+	  tot_width = view_info_w;
+	  for(i = 0; i < m->ntabs; ++i){
+	    if(tot_width + (m->ntabs - i) * sorted_label_widths[i] > m->ww)
+	      break;
+	    tot_width += sorted_label_widths[i];
+	  }
+	  maxsize = (m->ww - tot_width) / (m->ntabs - i);
+	} else{
+	  maxsize = m->ww;
+	}
+	i = 0;
+	for(c = m->clients; c; c = c->next){
+	  if(!ISVISIBLE(c)) continue;
+	  if(i >= m->ntabs) break;
+	  if(m->tab_widths[i] >  maxsize) m->tab_widths[i] = maxsize;
+	  w = m->tab_widths[i];
+	  drw_setscheme(drw, (c == m->sel) ? scheme[SchemeSel] : scheme[SchemeNorm]);
+	  drw_text(drw, x, 0, w, th, lrpad / 2, c->name, 0);
+	  x += w;
+	  ++i;
+	}
+
+	drw_setscheme(drw, scheme[SchemeNorm]);
+
+	/* cleans interspace between window names and current viewed tag label */
+	w = m->ww - view_info_w - x;
+	drw_text(drw, x, 0, w, th, lrpad / 2, "", 0);
+
+	/* view info */
+	x += w;
+	w = view_info_w;
+	drw_text(drw, x, 0, w, th, lrpad / 2, view_info, 0);
+
+	drw_map(drw, m->tabwin, 0, 0, m->ww, th);
+}
+
+void
 enternotify(XEvent *e)
 {
 	Client *c;
@@ -789,8 +928,10 @@ expose(XEvent *e)
 	Monitor *m;
 	XExposeEvent *ev = &e->xexpose;
 
-	if (ev->count == 0 && (m = wintomon(ev->window)))
+	if(ev->count == 0 && (m = wintomon(ev->window))){
 		drawbar(m);
+		drawtab(m);
+	}
 }
 
 void
@@ -817,6 +958,7 @@ focus(Client *c)
 	}
 	selmon->sel = c;
 	drawbars();
+	drawtabs();
 }
 
 /* there are some broken focus acquiring clients */
@@ -870,6 +1012,19 @@ focusstack(const Arg *arg)
 	}
 }
 
+void
+focuswin(const Arg* arg){
+  int iwin = arg->i;
+  Client* c = NULL;
+  for(c = selmon->clients; c && (iwin || !ISVISIBLE(c)) ; c = c->next){
+    if(ISVISIBLE(c)) --iwin;
+  };
+  if(c) {
+    focus(c);
+    restack(selmon);
+  }
+}
+
 Atom
 getatomprop(Client *c, Atom prop)
 {
@@ -1253,12 +1408,14 @@ propertynotify(XEvent *e)
 		case XA_WM_HINTS:
 			updatewmhints(c);
 			drawbars();
+			drawtabs();
 			break;
 		}
 		if (ev->atom == XA_WM_NAME || ev->atom == netatom[NetWMName]) {
 			updatetitle(c);
 			if (c == c->mon->sel)
 				drawbar(c->mon);
+			drawtab(c->mon);
 		}
 		if (ev->atom == netatom[NetWMWindowType])
 			updatewindowtype(c);
@@ -1372,6 +1529,7 @@ restack(Monitor *m)
 	XWindowChanges wc;
 
 	drawbar(m);
+	drawtab(m);
 	if (!m->sel)
 		return;
 	if (m->sel->isfloating || !m->lt[m->sellt]->arrange)
@@ -1564,6 +1722,7 @@ setup(void)
 		die("no fonts could be loaded.\n");
 	lrpad = drw->fonts->h;
 	bh = drw->fonts->h + 2;
+	th = bh;
 	updategeom();
 	/* init atoms */
 	wmatom[WMProtocols] = XInternAtom(dpy, "WM_PROTOCOLS", False);
@@ -1698,6 +1857,17 @@ togglebar(const Arg *arg)
 }
 
 void
+tabmode(const Arg *arg)
+{
+	if(arg && arg->i >= 0)
+		selmon->showtab = arg->ui % showtab_nmodes;
+	else
+		selmon->showtab = (selmon->showtab + 1 ) % showtab_nmodes;
+	arrange(selmon);
+}
+
+
+void
 togglefloating(const Arg *arg)
 {
 	if (!selmon->sel)
@@ -1808,20 +1978,44 @@ updatebars(void)
 		                          CWOverrideRedirect|CWBackPixmap|CWEventMask, &wa);
 		XDefineCursor(dpy, m->barwin, cursor[CurNormal]->cursor);
 		XMapRaised(dpy, m->barwin);
+		m->tabwin = XCreateWindow(dpy, root, m->wx, m->ty, m->ww, th, 0, DefaultDepth(dpy, screen),
+					  CopyFromParent, DefaultVisual(dpy, screen),
+					  CWOverrideRedirect|CWBackPixmap|CWEventMask, &wa);
+		XDefineCursor(dpy, m->tabwin, cursor[CurNormal]->cursor);
+		XMapRaised(dpy, m->tabwin);
 	}
 }
 
 void
 updatebarpos(Monitor *m)
 {
+	Client *c;
+	int nvis = 0;
+
 	m->wy = m->my;
 	m->wh = m->mh;
 	if (m->showbar) {
 		m->wh -= bh;
 		m->by = m->topbar ? m->wy : m->wy + m->wh;
-		m->wy = m->topbar ? m->wy + bh : m->wy;
-	} else
+		if ( m->topbar )
+			m->wy += bh;
+	} else {
 		m->by = -bh;
+	}
+
+	for(c = m->clients; c; c = c->next){
+	  if(ISVISIBLE(c)) ++nvis;
+	}
+
+	if(m->showtab == showtab_always
+	   || ((m->showtab == showtab_auto) && (nvis > 1) && (m->lt[m->sellt]->arrange == monocle))){
+		m->wh -= th;
+		m->ty = m->toptab ? m->wy : m->wy + m->wh;
+		if ( m->toptab )
+			m->wy += th;
+	} else {
+		m->ty = -th;
+	}
 }
 
 void
@@ -2062,7 +2256,7 @@ wintomon(Window w)
 	if (w == root && getrootptr(&x, &y))
 		return recttomon(x, y, 1, 1);
 	for (m = mons; m; m = m->next)
-		if (w == m->barwin)
+		if (w == m->barwin || w == m->tabwin)
 			return m;
 	if ((c = wintoclient(w)))
 		return c->mon;