It displays multiple stream of information like:
weather, my training stats, boinc stats, backup status, computer temperatures, performance graphs of other computers, CO2 measurements, processes of my compute and other stuff.
It is made with a combination of scripts. Multiple bash scripts that create the appropriate data, a bash script that combines images and graphs and produce the desktop background and a python script creating a gtk window with most of the text.
It's a little messy but i have it working over two years now...
I had tried with conky but it gets too heavy after a while so i end up on a more custom solution.