Reading hot keys

Hi!
How can I read "hotkeys" in Linux? The standard getch doeasn't work (neither scanf - obviusly).
These hot keys codes are:
Files - 133
E-mail - 236
WWW - 178
Search - 229
Files - 133
E-mail - 236
WWW - 178
Mute - 160
Volume - - 174
Volume + - 176

I've got these codes from xev.
Thenks...

You can use either Curses for this functionality or write your own getch() function. See the tutorials of Curses (CLI based windowing) for more details.

-Harsha.

I've already tried getch() from ncurses. Unfortuntely didn't work.
It read every key (F1..F12 etc.) but NOT hot keys and 3 other keys "print scrn", "scroll lock", "pause break".
I don't know why...