conky-manager2 VS ssui-conky

AFAIK, conky manager is unmaintained, although there is a fork you can try to build yourself.

The fork of conky manager which is conky-manager2 is maintained and works with the newer conky syntax based on Lua. https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2 Do a web search and you can find a PPA that has it.

try gotham clock desklet from conky-manager2, it looks cool

So what I did to get it working is installed conky from the repo/discovery store. I then manually installed conky-manager2 which you can get here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

you might want to try this updated fork instead: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I'm using conky with conky maganger 2. Here's a link:https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I have kind of the same problems. So, that is why I answer. I came across conky when using MX Linux. they have a wonderfully working Conky manager, which can be downloade here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2