Removing the xclearborders() hack. St now cleans up the parts of the border,

if something needs to be drawn close to it.

st.c

@@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ typedef struct {
 	int mode;
 	int bx, by;
 	int ex, ey;
-	struct {int x, y;} b, e;
+	struct {
+		int x, y;
+	} b, e;
 	char *clip;
 	Atom xtarget;
 	bool alt;
@@ -1031,7 +1033,8 @@ treset(void) {
 	memset(term.tabs, 0, term.col * sizeof(*term.tabs));
 	for(i = TAB; i < term.col; i += TAB)
 		term.tabs[i] = 1;
-	term.top = 0, term.bot = term.row - 1;
+	term.top = 0;
+	term.bot = term.row - 1;
 	term.mode = MODE_WRAP;
 
 	tclearregion(0, 0, term.col-1, term.row-1);
@@ -1040,7 +1043,8 @@ treset(void) {
 void
 tnew(int col, int row) {
 	/* set screen size */
-	term.row = row, term.col = col;
+	term.row = row;
+	term.col = col;
 	term.line = xmalloc(term.row * sizeof(Line));
 	term.alt  = xmalloc(term.row * sizeof(Line));
 	term.dirty = xmalloc(term.row * sizeof(*term.dirty));
@@ -1909,7 +1913,6 @@ tputc(char *c, int len) {
 			case 'c': /* RIS -- Reset to inital state */
 				treset();
 				term.esc = 0;
-				xclearborders();
 				xresettitle();
 				break;
 			case '=': /* DECPAM -- Application keypad */
@@ -2090,18 +2093,6 @@ xclear(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2) {
 			x1, y1, x2-x1, y2-y1);
 }
 
-void
-xclearborders(void) {
-	/* top and left border */
-	xclear(0, 0, BORDER, xw.h);
-	xclear(0, 0, xw.w, BORDER);
-
-	/* lower and right border */
-	xclear(BORDER, xw.th - 1, xw.w, xw.h);
-	/* Will just draw what hasn't been drawn by the previous call. */
-	xclear(xw.tw - 1, BORDER, xw.w, xw.h - xw.th - 2);
-}
-
 void
 xhints(void) {
 	XClassHint class = {opt_class ? opt_class : TNAME, TNAME};
@@ -2328,6 +2319,20 @@ xdraws(char *s, Glyph base, int x, int y, int charlen, int bytelen) {
 			&extents);
 	width = extents.xOff;
 
+	/* Intelligent cleaning up of the borders. */
+	if(x == 0) {
+		xclear(0, (y == 0)? 0 : winy, BORDER,
+			winy + xw.ch + (y == term.row-1)? xw.h : 0);
+	}
+	if(x + charlen >= term.col-1) {
+		xclear(winx + width, (y == 0)? 0 : winy, xw.w,
+			winy + xw.ch + (y == term.row-1)? xw.h : 0);
+	}
+	if(y == 0)
+		xclear(winx, 0, winx + width, BORDER);
+	if(y == term.row-1)
+		xclear(winx, winy + xw.ch, winx + width, xw.h);
+
 	XftDrawRect(xw.xft_draw, bg, winx, winy, width, xw.ch);
 	XftDrawStringUtf8(xw.xft_draw, fg, font->xft_set, winx,
 			winy + font->ascent, (FcChar8 *)s, bytelen);
@@ -2382,7 +2387,6 @@ void
 redraw(void) {
 	struct timespec tv = {0, REDRAW_TIMEOUT * 1000};
 
-	xclearborders();
 	tfulldirt();
 	draw();
 	XSync(xw.dpy, False); /* necessary for a good tput flash */
@@ -2598,7 +2602,6 @@ resize(XEvent *e) {
 
 	tresize(col, row);
 	xresize(col, row);
-	xclearborders();
 	ttyresize();
 }