i3 does not pick up staged config (documentation outdated?)

[Mattsi-Jansky]

• I've run a search on the existing bug reports to make sure I'm not filing a duplicate (you can use the search box at the top left corner)
• I've read the Regolith documentation and didn't find any relevant topic

Describe the bug

The following doc page describes how to stage a custom config for i3: https://regolith-desktop.com/docs/howtos/stage-configs/
However, this doesn't work. Files staged in the way the documentation suggests are not picked up by i3. And looking at https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-wm-config/, I can't find any reference the paths suggested in the docs (~/.config/regolith3/i3/config), only to config.d.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• Stage the config file as the docs suggest with mkdir -p ~/.config/regolith3/i3 and cp /etc/regolith/i3/config ~/.config/regolith3/i3/config
• Restart i3
• Run i3 --moreversion

Expected behavior

The staged config file should appear in the list of i3 config files

Actual behavior

The staged config file does not appear in the list of i3 config files

Screenshots

Installation Details

• Regolith Install Stage: Stable
• Regolith Version: 3.2
• Host OS: Ubuntu 24.04

Additional context

Once I realised the config file specified in the doc was not being loaded, I was able to easily do what I needed using the override scripts in config.d instead.