This package provides a minor mode `dired-icon-mode' to display an icon for each file type in dired buffers. Currently MacOS and systems which run GTK 3, such as GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD and FreeBSD, are fully supported (pre-requisition for GTK systems: PyGObject for Python 3 and optionally the file command ). On other systems, currently only directory icons are displayed. To display the icons in a dired buffer, simply call M-x `dired-icon-mode' inside a dired buffer. To always display the file icons in dired buffers, add the following to your ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'dired-icon-mode) To report bugs and make feature requests, please open a new ticket at the issue tracker . To contribute, please create a merge request at .