Awesome does not provide autostart functionality; not in the sense of freedesktop autostart specification and using *.desktop files. Below are some solutions for you to consider.

These advices can be useful to create a screen locker with slock and xautolock by simply adding xautolock -time 10 -locker slock to ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua

Werc is a minimalist web anti-framework built following the Unix and Plan 9 tool philosophy of software design.

Werc avoids the pain of managing collections of websites and developing web applications.

• Database free, uses files and directories instead.
• Written using the rc shell, leveraging the standard Unix/Plan 9 command toolkit.
• Minimize tedious work: eg., no need to ever write HTML, use markdown (or any other format) instead.
• Very minimalist yet extensible codebase: highly functional core is 150 lines, with extra functionality in modular apps.

Cat-v.org hosts a series of sites dedicated to diverse subjects that share an idiosyncratic intellectual perspective, questioning orthodoxy and fomenting elitism and high standards in topics from software design to politics, passing by art and journalism and anything else interesting.

Other than total and complete world domination, the overriding goal is to encourage and stimulate critical and independent thinking.

We represent a group of scientists, hackers and other misfits.

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.