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I have installed Redshift on my computer, and it works fine with the command gtk-redshift However it won't start up automatically when using the same command in startup applications. How do I set it to automatically start?

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There is a known bug #868904 that stops Redshift starting automatically in 11.10 due to geoclue conflicts on startup.

See Comment #17 on the bug report for a possible solution of setting the location permanently on start up.

1) Use http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html or any other service to find your latitude/longitude

2) Adjust the startup command of redshift to: gtk-redshift -l <latitude>:<longitude>

Example of latitude/longitude of Amsterdam for redshift: gtk-redshift -l 52.37:4.9

It is reportedly fixed in the package 1.7-1ubuntu2 but the Launchpad homepage for the project lists only 1.7-0ubuntu1 built 35 weeks ago.

You could try downloading direct from their website to see if it fixes the issue with a later version.

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would it start if I used the GNOME-clock method? – Dandyman Mar 10 '12 at 21:11
I'm not sure, you could try it but the steps outlined above apparently work.. – Mark Rooney Mar 10 '12 at 21:17
I've now tried it with both the gnome-clock and manual methods, and it won't start on either – Dandyman Mar 12 '12 at 18:54
Well if you have tried the method above and it does not work I'm out of suggestions. As I said this is a bug in Redshift so you may well just have to wait for it to be resolved by the Redshift developer. – Mark Rooney Mar 13 '12 at 20:38

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