I don't have any objection to this.  It seems safe if it actually works as 
documented.  :)
Note the caveat from the end of "man Xsecurity":

              If  your  system  supports [localuser] and you use it, be warned
              that some programs that proxy connections and are setuid or set‐
              gid  may  get  authenticated as the uid or gid of the proxy pro‐
              cess.  For instance, some versions of ssh will be  authenticated
              as the user root, no matter what user is running the ssh client,
              so  on  systems  with   such   software,   adding   access   for
              localuser:root  may  allow  wider  access than intended to the X
              display.

As such, it should probably be tested with things that are known to do
funny uid things, like the PolicyKit password helpers, etc.  As long as
those still work when the hostname changes, this seems like a reasonable
addition.

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