Thomas Schmitt (12022-07-25):
> On my screen i (individually) see pure green brighter than pure red which
> is brighter than pure blue:
>   xterm -bg '#ff0000' &
>   xterm -bg '#00ff00' &
>   xterm -bg '#0000ff' &

Yes, it is perfectly normal.

> Nevertheless a slight overweight of blue can create a blue-ish impression:
>   xterm -bg '#e0e0ff' &
> Note that the sum of red and green is 1.75 times brighter than blue.

Nitpick on this sentence: you forgot to take into account the fact that
these value are not linear. A gray that is halfway between black and
white in linear space:

perl -e 'print "P5\n1023 1023\n255\n", "\0\xFF" x (1023*512)' | display -

is somewhere between #AAA and #CCC.

Key word: gamma.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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