[pravus]

This was a long time ago before terminal emulators had themes and I also did a lot of work on actual terminals (monochrome hardware) and the console (black background with gray text). Even my current emulator doesn't support "themes". I have to set each color register individually in the .Xresources file. On modern hardware this works fine, but years ago the quality of CRTs was such that you couldn't guarantee brightness and color levels across devices.

Do you remember the days of X Modelines? I still have the nightmares.