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There's a nice little package called sux that does the Xauthority exporting for you in a comfortable manner (only available in testing and unstable at the moment):
$ apt-cache show sux|grep Description -A 30 Description: wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your X credentials to the target user. . http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/ ( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ )
Just do sux <user> and you'll be able to start X applications.
Snapper 06-03-2005