I believe you just delete the exiting .Xauthority file n your user home
directory and then restart X.  

Jason Brown

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Ok, I did a big no no and accidentaly started X after I had done an su.
> After quickly exiting KDE I exited my su and tried to startx using my normal
> user account.  It complained about my .Xauthority file and now I cannot run
> X with that account.  Root X still works though.  Is this a common thing
> that newbies like myself fubar?  is there a quick fix?  Thanks.
> 
> - Joel
> 
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