Originally Posted by pycage

Yes, it is.


The volume keys are simply F7 and F8 keys. However, the hildon desktop captures the key events before they reach your application, so you have to set a Xatom property on the window that wants to receive these keys:

Code:

# we need to notify Maemo5 that we want to use the volume keys
self.__window.window.property_change("_HILDON_ZOOM_KEY_ATOM",
    "XA_INTEGER", 32,
    gtk.gdk.PROP_MODE_REPLACE,
    [1])

That is, call property_change on the GdkWindow (window) member of a GtkWindow or HildonWindow.