More Display settings?

Today I got a dell 20.1 inch LCD monitor to run as a dual monitor with my macbook. It looks great and I am really happy with how easy it is to span monitors in OSX... However, there are a few features I would like to tweak and haven't been able to find a way. For example, when an application wants to use "full screen"(mostly games) they will rather choose the smaller monitor and make the big screen blank, or they will choose the big screen and make the macbook screen blank... ideally I would like to set it so the big screen goes full screen, and the macbook screen stays as my desk top so I can use other apps between gaming sessions. Does anyone know a way to do this?

Ok I did a few more tweaks and was able to get all the APPS to default to opening in the larger screen, however, when I go fullscreen it still blanks the small macbook scren, I don't want it to go black when I go fullscreen on the big screen, anyone know how to change this?

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