is there a quick way to turn the search string off or toggle it's display in mint menu, short of uninstall or remove from panel

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I personally only search for file/folders by name and not content 99.998% of the time
perhaps need a context type search only 3 or 4 times a year on my machine,
so the following recursive list gives me what I need.
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ls -A -R -s -n -b --file-type -D --author > directory.txt
and serves as a baseline for finding changes made to machines files )and net accessed stores as well.