Awesome WM - Launch a terminal based app with a shortcut

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.