It comes with widgets that display time and date, weather (temperatures and descriptions), internet connection status and music visualize that shows the title of the song that’s currently in play as well as its singer. It is available for all Linux distros, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.You can, however, make a screenshot of your Desktop without conky and use it as wallpaper so you can see the desktop icons behind conky, but. Therefore conky can't show desktop icons behind it.The Conky utility is easily available through the official Ubuntu repository and can easily be installed through the command line using the apt-get command.
conky folder in the Home directory (Enable 'Show Hidden Files') and locate.