I don’t know if I would call it “dead”, “broken” maybe.
Conky has two packages for fedora: Conky and Conky-Manager.
When you run the first one, the widget appears on the desktop, but you can only modify it via the text file /etc/conky/conky.conf.
And that can take hours (like me) depending on your experience doing so, so let’s go with Conky-Manager.
It opens with no problem but if you check a widget, this one doesn’t show on the desktop. Using the shell to open conky-manager shows the “syntax error near #” thing, a solution for that is using convert.lua script provided by nice people on GitHub.
The script works, but after closing and re-open Conky-Manager the widgets that you modify with the script disappear from the list, like the image below.
Even if the widgets doesn’t disappear from the list, as soon as you modify them with the tool button they will be gone from desktop 'cause Conky-Manager will still use “#” instead of “–” or " yes" instead of " = true," and more more… This one was reported on Bugzilla.
The only thing I could think of was on using the first package (conky) and modify the generic widget vía the text file /etc/conky/conky.conf. So I did, it took me hours and I’m still learning,
But (for me) this is the funny part, after a couple of hours, modifying it, between yesterday and today I came to realize that if I clic on a free space of the desktop the generic widget disappear automatically.
XD
Also, I don’t know if is just me but I still can’t find anywhere that file that everyone call .conkyrc.
I have a virtual-machine with Fedora 32 and there everything seems just fine with conky and conky-manager.
Conky has some time in the wild forest by now, but just yestarday I wanted to start using it for the first time. That’s how I get to your question @boricua.
Just in case, I use Fedora 33 XFCE spin.
Thanks for reading.