Tabbed is a project mainly written in C, based on the MIT license.
http://hg.suckless.org/tabbed
tabbed is a simple Xembed container manager based on Xlib.
In order to build tabbed you need the Xlib header files.
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (tabbed is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install tabbed (if necessary as root):
make clean install
run tabbed [-d]