startview
Startview is an own project located here. It provides a nice overlay on the screen that allows fast and easy access to the most used or favorite programs.
A detailed documentation is available on it's own wiki.
The shortcut for this feature is bound to Super which imitates the same behaviour as Windows.
The list of apps to start in this view are read from a config file in ~/.config/awesome/startview/apps.conf.
General Syntax is like this
{ appOne = {["title"] = "Displayname", ["path"] = "location of exe", ["icon"] = "location of icon"} }
The default startview for simpledesktop looks like this 