unable to change us keyboard in french keyboard

[Albert Polombo]

I have done the installation of cygwin-xfree under W2000. It works 
perfectly but  I get an us keyboard in a graphic window. I tried to put the 
line run setxkbmap.exe -layout fr in startxwin.bat but  with that line, it 
is no more possible to open a graphic window.
I have also tried the command setxkbmap.exe -layout fr in a graphic window 
and the window was shut.
All the previous work in the case of Windows98. I would like some help. 
Thank you.