Paul - it's completely safe to remove the .Xauthority after your X session has ended as long as you aren't storing any other tokens in it that you might need to keep (e.g. tokens for logging into remote X servers).
Paul - it's completely safe to remove the .Xauthority after your X session has ended as long as you aren't storing any other tokens in it that you might need to keep (e.g. tokens for logging into remote X servers).