One such mode is stripe-buffer, which can be fonud here: https://github.com/sabof/stripe-buffer the definition below fixes the problem. Evgeni (ad-unadvise 'image-dired-dired-toggle-marked-thumbs) ; stripe-buffer monkey-patches the function. (defun image-dired-dired-toggle-marked-thumbs (&optional arg) "Toggle thumbnails in front of file names in the dired buffer. If no marked file could be found, insert or hide thumbnails on the current line. ARG, if non-nil, specifies the files to use instead of the marked files. If ARG is an integer, use the next ARG (or previous -ARG, if ARG<0) files." (interactive "P") (dired-map-over-marks (let* ((image-pos (dired-move-to-filename)) (image-file (dired-get-filename nil t)) thumb-file overlay) (when (and image-file (string-match-p (image-file-name-regexp) image-file)) (setq thumb-file (image-dired-get-thumbnail-image image-file)) ;; If image is not already added, then add it. (let* (( cur-ovs (overlays-in (point) (1+ (point)))) ( thumb-ov (car (cl-remove-if-not (lambda (ov) (overlay-get ov 'thumb-file)) cur-ovs)))) (if thumb-ov (delete-overlay thumb-ov) (progn (put-image thumb-file image-pos) (setq overlay (cl-loop for o in (overlays-in (point) (1+ (point))) when (overlay-get o 'put-image) collect o into ov finally return (car ov))) (overlay-put overlay 'image-file image-file) (overlay-put overlay 'thumb-file thumb-file)))))) arg ; Show or hide image on ARG next files. 'show-progress) ; Update dired display after each image is updated. (add-hook 'dired-after-readin-hook 'image-dired-dired-after-readin-hook nil t))