Problems with .Xauthority , = DEV RPI4 KDE PLASMA img

Are you sure it should be ?
.Xauthority is sorta legacy … modern sddm/kde creates the file dynamically…
something like /run/sddm/xauth_EWhnye

So … do you need a static one or a way to reliably find it for a reason?
If so there are ways to handle that …

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#X_authority_(aka_MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE)_file