I've tried various DEs (Xfce, MATE, GNOME...), but I couldn't set up my screens properly in any of those. Here's the setup I'm looking for:
- 2 screens with different resolutions (LVDS on the left - laptop screen & VGA on the right - external monitor)
- Whenever I connect the VGA monitor, I want the setup to adapt and set it as my primary display
- Primary display = taskbar, desktop with all the icons on it, windows placed automatically in there
One of the biggest issues in pretty much every DE I tried was the placement of desktop icons - pretty much everytime I connected/disconnected the VGA display, they were moved beyond the visible area of the screen or weren't visible at all.
When I do the same thing in Windows 8, the icons, windows and taskbars always adapt pretty much perfectly and are always accessible.