Which desktop environment are you using? I have used the redshift-gtk package (for gtk based environments) and the KDE redshift plasmoid at various times. Both

Which desktop environment are you using? I have used the redshift-gtk package (for gtk based environments) and the KDE redshift plasmoid at various times. Both provide the option to autostart redshift in their GUI. The arch wiki[1] has a good entry about redshift autostart as well. The only other problems I've faced running redshift in the past, were related to geoclue. [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/redshift#Autostart https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/redshift#Autostart