Translations:Basic Tips for conky/49/en
From Manjaro
Running conky
If you want to display a conky on your desktop a ~/.config/conky/conky.conf file with code in it is required. Next, open a terminal and run conky pointing to the file
user $ conky -c ~/.config/conky/conky.conf
or to run as background daemon
user $ conky -d -c ~/.config/conky/conky.conf