### Bug report **Bug summary** kwargs passed to tight layout do not have an effect if rc the figure.autolayout setting is set **Code for reproduction** No padding is inserted in the following example if figure.autolayout is set to True in the rc ```python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, axes = plt.subplots(ncols=2) fig.tight_layout(w_pad=10) ``` **Matplotlib version** Tested with a conda installed Matplotlib 1.5.3 on Ubuntu Linux.