keyboard mapping wrong only in specific applications under TightVNC

I searched pretty thoroughly and I could only find posts in which people have keyboard mappings that are wrong system-wide, however I have a bizarre situation in which most applications work OK, but some are completely wrong: I am running Ubuntu 16.04 server with xfce installed (never had Unity/GNOME). I am running tightserver. I remote in and everything that comes with xfce seems to work. I installed various applications. The following do work: - gedit - firefox - filezilla - gimp The following do not work: - notepadqq - qbittorrent in notepadqq I get the following (left is keypressed, right is key displayed) a=a b=s c=d d=f e=g (if important I will make full list) I feel like there most be something very specific that would cause this, that is I don't think it has anything to do with processor load/hardware glitch/power fluctuation. Why would specific applications behave this way?