Awesome WM - Launch a terminal based app with a shortcut

Question

What I want is to have a shortcut to initiate things like vifm, cmus, htop etc. These apps require being initiate from a terminal.

I know for create a shortcut in Awesome WM I should:

awful.key({ modkey },            "my_hotkey",     function () awful.util.spawn(...here goes the app) end,
          {description = "the_description", group = "my custom group"}),

But I can't simply put there:

awful.util.spawn("vifm")

I doesn't work. So how could I make a shortcut that initiates let's say vifm, taking in consideration this code have to run a terminal first and then inside that terminal launch "vifm".

Also, is there a more efficient way to do this? I mean maybe initiating directly vifm instead of having to rely on running first a terminal?

PD: My shell is bash, my terminal is Konsole.

Answer 1

Most terminals allow running a command which, when finished, will also exit the terminal. I don't know Konsole, but in GNOME Terminal this is as simple as gnome-terminal -- vim.

If you want the terminal to hang around after the command is finished, you can use this hack: gnome-terminal -- bash -c 'vim; bash'.

Answer 2

I feel a little embarrassed for not having realize the solution before. In fact it was in the very help page of konsole, anyways the command is (for konsole):

konsole -e cli_based_app

So for example

konsole -e vim

Then you can put that in your rc.lua and assign a hotkey for it.