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General

Ardour - Set punch range from edit range

Audacity - Select > Left at Playback Position

Extended Mapedit - Change sprite slope

GoldWave - Moves the start marker to the current playback position.

Lynx 2.8.9 - Toggle pseudo_inlines mode on and off

Mame - UI previous group

Mame - Switch between palette devices

Mame - Switch between different graphics sets

Mame - Switch between different tilemaps

Mapedit (Blood) - Set angle (0-32767 and negative)

Mapedit (Blood) - Slope up

Mozilla Thunderbird - Go to previous viewed message

Roll20 - Settings Tab

Imaging

3D Coat - Decrease radius

Adobe After Effects 2021 - Move selected layers so that their In point or Out point is at the current time

Adobe Illustrator - Decrease size of Blob Brush

Adobe Illustrator - Decrease Bristle brush size

Adobe Illustrator (Mac) - Decrease size of Blob Brush

Adobe Illustrator (Mac) - Decrease Bristle brush size

Adobe Lightroom Classic - Increase/decrease rating by one star

Adobe Lightroom Classic - Increase/decrease brush size

Adobe Lightroom Classic (Mac) - Increase/decrease rating by one star

Adobe Lightroom Classic (Mac) - Increase/decrease brush size

Adobe Photoshop (macOS) - Decrease Brush Size

Adobe Photoshop (macOS) - Decrease brush size (Brush, Stamp tools)

Adobe Photoshop (macOS) - Increase/decrease brush size

Adobe Photoshop (macOS) - Increase/decrease brush size

Adobe Photoshop (macOS) - (On Magnetic Lasso tool) Increase/decrease detection width

Adobe Photoshop CC - Decrease Brush Size

Adobe Photoshop CC - Decrease brush size (Brush, Stamp tools)

Adobe Photoshop CC - Increase/decrease brush size

Adobe Photoshop CC - (On Magnetic Lasso tool) Increase/decrease detection width

Adobe Photoshop Elements (Mac) - (Magnetic Lasso tool) Increase detection width

Adobe Photoshop Elements (Mac) - Decrease brush size

Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows) - Decrease Clip Volume

Affinity Photo - Increase/decrease brush width

Autodesk 3ds Max 2021 - Decrease Step Size

Autodesk Maya 2019 - Undo view change

Autodesk SketchBook (Mac) - Decrease brush size

Autodesk SketchBook (Windows) - Decrease brush size

Capture One 20 - Decrease brush size

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Clip Studio Paint Pro - (Before operation) Make (brush size) thinner

Corel Painter - Decrease current brush size incrementally

Corel Painter (Mac) - Decrease current brush size incrementally

Darktable 2.6.3 - Flip > Rotate 90 degrees counter clockwise

Darktable 2.6.3 - Darkroom > Decrease brush size

DaVinci Resolve 15 (Mac) - Previous keyframe

Daz Studio 4.15 - Decrease move speed

Final Cut Pro X - Select the left edge of the edit point

Glimpse 0.1.2 - Tool size: Decrease by 1

Harmony 20 - Substitute drawing previous

Harmony 20 - Substitute drawing previous

Harmony 20 - Select left handle

Harmony 20 (macOS) - Substitute drawing previous

Harmony 20 (macOS) - Substitute drawing previous

Harmony 20 (macOS) - Select left handle

InVision Studio 1.28.2 - Select Layer Above

Krita 3.0 - Decrease brush size

LightWave 3D - Shear

LightWave 3D - Decrease grid

Mari 4.6 - Increase/Decrease radius

Mari 4.6 (macOS) - Increase/Decrease radius

Marmoset Hexels - Brush Size –

Marmoset Toolbag 4 - Paint offset/skew

Marmoset Toolbag 4 - Size

MediBang Paint Pro 27.0 - Decrease brush size

Meshmixer - Brush size

Modo 12.1 - Invert selection

Moho 13 - Decrease line width

Node Wrangler 3.36 - Select parent

Nuke - Toggle left toolbar

OpenToonz 1.4 - Send backward

Paint 3D - Decrease brush size

Paint Tool SAI - Decrease brush size

Paint Tool SAI - Decrease Brush Size

Paint.NET - Open File menu

Pinnacle Studio 22 - Zoom out on the timeline

Pixelmator Pro - Increase or decrease brush size

PowerDirector 17 - Mark in

Procreate 5X - Decrease brush size by 5%

Substance Painter - Decrease tool size

Substance Painter (Mac) - Decrease tool size

Tahoma2D 1.1 - Move back one

Developer tools

Amazon Lumberyard - Increase the brush radius size

Atlassian JIRA Agile - Hide/Show Left Section

Bitbucket Cloud - Expand and collapse left navigation

EOS Family 3.0.0 - Workspace

Gerrit Web UI - Open last file

JupyterLab - Rotate counterclockwise

Roblox Studio - Undo camera move/shift

Sublime Text 4 - Insert snippet

Sublime Text 4 - Insert snippet

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Grid size (position): Decrement

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Decrease brush size

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Decrease brush size

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Decrease brush size

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Decrease brush size

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Set start playback range

Unreal Engine 5.0 (early access) - Decrease brush size

Virtual Key Codes - (Used for miscellaneous characters; it can vary by keyboard. For the US standard keyboard, the '[{' key) VK_OEM_4 (0xDB)

Web applications

Gmail - Archive conversation and go next

SnapStream - Playback rate settings

Yahoo Mail - Move to the previous tab

File manager

Adobe Bridge CC - Rotate 90° clockwise

Adobe Bridge CC (Mac) - Rotate 90° clockwise

Media player

Cmus 2.8 - Vol +1 +0

GOM Player - Start AB repeat

Kodi - Seek step forward 10min

mpv - Decrease speed

PotPlayer 1.7 - Set starting point

QLab 4 - Pause All

VLC Media Player - Increase playback speed by 0.1x

VLC Media Player - Decrease playback speed by 0.1x

Games

Age of Empires IV - Rotate camera 45 degrees counter-clockwise

Age of Empires IV - Cycle through individual Scout units

American Truck Simulator - Left-turn indicator

ARK: Survival Evolved - Emotes

Arma 3 - Left panel

Arma 3 - Left panel

Blood - Cycle through inventory items

Caesar III Heaven - Reduce game speed

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (PC) - View / Activate mutations

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (PC) - Scroll up through fuel list

ChessBase 13 - Cut previous moves

Civilization VI (PC) - Previous city

Dawn of Man - Previous work area

Divinity: Original Sin II (PC) - Cycle characters previous

Far Cry New Dawn (PC) - Radio On / Off

FlightGear - Retract flaps

FTL: Faster Than Light - Activate

Grand Theft Auto V - Sniper/Camera Zoom in / out

Grand Theft Auto V - Previous Vehicle Weapon

GTA IV Emergency Lighting System - Toggle cruise mode (CSE)

iRacing - Increase FOV

iRacing - FOV zoom out

Jurassic World Evolution 2 (PC) - Previous Tab

Kenshi (PC) - Decrease building slope

Kerbal Space Program - Cycle through active ships (backwards)

Kerbal Space Program - Cycle through active ships/EVAs (backwards)

Lost Ark (PC) - Titles

MapleStory (PC) - Menu

MapleStory (PC) - Menu

Metro 2033 (PC) - Previous weapon

Metro Exodus (PC) - Previous weapon

NetHack - List armor

Open Rails 0.6.2 - Engine brake decrease

Oxygen Not Included (PC) - Building utility 2

Portal 2 - Make entire selection white (portalable)

Psychonauts (PC) - Inventory menu

RaceRoom - Brake Bias front

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem - Previous weapon

Space Engineers (PC) - Previous color or camera

Space Engineers (PC) - Switch to previous color

Space Engineers (PC) - Next voxel material

Star Citizen - Accept Invite

Strike Commander - Zoom in (radar)

Strike Commander - Zoom in

Tanki Online - Camera view

The Crew 2 (PC) - Previous & Left Button

The Sims 4 - Make brush size smaller while painting terrain. Also cycles through square/circle brushes

Trainz: A New Era - Camera previous view

Trainz: A New Era - Decrease height sensitivity

Trainz: A New Era - Rotate counter clockwise

Transport Fever 2 - Construction option 7

War Room - Game speed up

X-Plane 11 - Pitch trim down

Social & Messaging

Zimbra Web Client - Go to previous unread message

Productivity

Autodesk Flame 2019 - Mark In

Avid Pro Tools 2021.6 - Play Edit Selection

Cakewalk by Bandlab - Coarse adjust for knobs

Cakewalk by Bandlab - Advance by 5 frames

Confluence - Open and close the sidebar

Confluence (Mac) - Open and close the sidebar

Confluence Cloud - Toggle Space Sidebar

Confluence Cloud - Link

Davinci Resolve 17 (macOS) - Go to Previous Keyframe

Davinci Resolve 17 (Windows) - Go to Previous Keyframe

Dorico - 𝆓 Decrescendo

Dorico (macOS) - 𝆓 Decrescendo

Edius Pro 9 - Insert to Timeline

Evolution - Previous unread message

Finale 26 - Navigation: jump to previous measure

Guitar Pro - Repeat open

Guitar Pro - Palm mute note

Huggle - Browse back

JIRA Core - Dock / Undock the filters panel

Logic Pro 10.6 - Previous patch, plug-in setting or sampler instrument

Luna (DAW) - Move Selection to Previous Bar

Luna (DAW) - Moves the playhead to the previous bar.

QuickBooks Desktop - (left bracket) Same day in previous week

REAPER - Markers: Go to previous marker/project start

Riffstation Desktop - Volume down

RX 8 Audio Editor (macOS) - Begin Selection At Playhead

RX 8 Audio Editor (Windows) - Begin Selection At Playhead

Snipaste 2.3.5 - Decrease/Increase the pen width when in edit mode

Studio One 5.4 - Previous Channel

Superhuman (macOS) - Remove label, next

Tracktion T7 DAW (Windows) - Jump to the mark-in point

Trading Technologies TT - Select TT bracket

Traktor Pro 3 - Loop size select + Set (Deck A)

Vegas Pro 18 - Enter edge-trimming mode and select event start; move to previous event edge

Xactimate - Flip Horizontally

Scientific

[email protected] 3D Visualization - Decrease slot ID

JMP 15 - Subscript

JMP 15 (macOS) - Subscript

Vectorworks 2020 - 5th group

Vectorworks 2020 (macOS) - 5th group

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