My laptop at work has a really crappy keyboard. This is not much of a
problem at work because I can easily use an external keyboard. But at
home, it's annoying.
Thus, I'm using X11 forwarding. I run a second X server on my main
workstation. Then, I simply connect to my laptop via SSH and run its
xinitrc from my xinitrc.
This is working really well. I can barely notice that I'm working on a
remote machine. I do have gigabit ethernet, though.